Wednesday, September 30, 2015

DOW UP 236 POINTS YESTERDAY.UP AND DOWN THE MARKETS QUAKEN.

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)

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.

LUKE 2:1-3
1 And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed.
2  (And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.)
3  And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city.

REVELATION 13:16-18
16 And he(THE FALSE POPE WHO DEFECTED FROM THE CHRISTIAN FAITH) causeth all,(IN THE WORLD ) both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:(MICROCHIP IMPLANT)
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark,(MICROCHIP IMPLANT) or the name of the beast,(WORLD DICTATORS NAME INGRAVED ON YOUR SKIN OR TATTOOED ON YOU OR IN THE MICROCHIP IMPLANT) or the number of his name.(THE NUMBERS OF HIS NAME INGRAVED IN THE MICROCHIP IMLPLANT)-(ALL THESE WILL TELL THE WORLD DICTATOR THAT YOUR WITH HIM AND AGAINST KING JESUS-GOD)
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast:(WORLD LEADER) for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.(6-6-6) A NUMBER SYSTEM (6006006)OR(60020202006)(SOME KIND OF NUMBER IMPLANTED IN THE MICROCHIP THAT TELLS THE WORLD DICTATOR AND THE NEW WORLD ORDER THAT YOU GIVE YOUR TOTAL ALLIGIENCE TO HIM AND NOT JESUS)(ITS AN ETERNAL DECISION YOU MAKE)(YOU CHOOSE YOUR OWN DESTINY)(YOU TAKE THE DICTATORS NAME OR NUMBER UNDER YOUR SKIN,YOUR DOOMED TO THE LAKE OF FIRE AND TORMENTS FOREVER,NEVER ENDING MEANT ONLY FOR SATAN AND HIS ANGELS,NOT HUMAN BEINGS).OR YOU REFUSE THE MICROCHIP IMPLANT AND GO ON THE SIDE OF KING JESUS AND RULE FOREVER WITH HIM ON EARTH.YOU CHOOSE,ITS YOUR DECISION.

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)

DOCTOR DOCTORIAN FROM ANGEL OF GOD
then the angel said, Financial crisis will come to Asia. I will shake the world.

The Shemitah is coming true.Do people not get it? There is a economic crash every 7 years.
1980: Recession
1987: Stock market crash
1994: Bond market crash
2001: 9/11, dot com, recession
2008: Housing crash
2015: See if something will happen-The central banks will be the death of us. Get ready and embrace yourself for the economic collapse.

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EU endorses controversial finance tool By Peter Teffer-SEPT 30,15-EUOBSERVER

Brussels, Today, 17:08-The European Commission announced on Wednesday (30 September) it wants to revive the securitisation market, embracing a financial practice which in the United States led to the 2008 financial crisis.Capital markets commissioner Jonathan Hill told journalists in Brussels on Wednesday afternoon that the European economy needs more securitisation, which is the process of packaging loans, mortgages, or other contractual debts, and then selling them as securities.The British official noted that the financial engineering tool "has been contaminated, stigmatized" because of the US experience, where securitisation of sub-prime mortgages led eventually to a global financial and economic crisis.According to their ratings, the US securitisations should only have had a 0.1 percent probability of defaulting, but actually defaulted in 16 percent of cases.But in Europe, default rates "were very low", said Hill."If you look at the record of European securitisation during the crisis, after the crisis, actually it was much stronger and much better than it was the case in the United States", he added.In a legislative plan the Commission sent for approval to the European parliament and member states on Wednesday, the EU executive proposed the creation of a new type of securitisation, called simple, transparent and standardised securitisation (STS securitisation).Earlier on Wednesday, a Commission official said the EU is "not going to drop any of the important protections that are in place to deal with the sub-prime issue", but that "fundamentally we're trying to restart what is a good market".The Commission hopes that if banks can sell the risks for mortgage loans and other assets, it will free up cash to lend to small- and medium-sized (SME) businesses."Who asked us to do it? The European Central Bank, the Bank of England, the European Banking Authority, comprised of regulators from all around Europe, so I think there is a consensus that this is needed", the source noted. Commissioner Hill noted the proposal is based on "very detailed, careful work done by highly conservative and regulatory-minded organisations"."That gives me a lot of confidence that we are acting in a sensible and proportionate way", the UK commissioner said.According to figures from the International Monetary Fund and the European Banking Authority, the value of securitisation issuance in the EU has already increased in 2014 compared to the year before, but Hill noted that an EU intervention is necessary"It is recovering, but I think we feel that to give that a further boost is sensible and desirable, not least because of the beneficial effect it would have on the banks, freeing up their balance sheets, encouraging them to lend", he said.The securitisation proposal is part of a much broader package of measures laid out in the Commission's "Action Plan on Building a Capital Markets Union", also published on Wednesday.The paper notes that compared to the United States, the EU's capital markets are "underdeveloped and fragmented". What is the Union in the capital market? While Jean-Claude Juncker's Commission promises it will "build a Capital Markets Union", it emerged Wednesday that it is unclear when its construction will be finished. There is no deadline or objective criteria to be met to mark a new stage in European integration, unlike with the introduction of the eurozone." If you're a business somewhere in, like, Latvia or Lithuania, and you wake up one day and suddenly you can get some finance that you wouldn't have been able to get the year before, then that would be for you I guess, Capital Markets Union. But there won't be a single thing that kind of encapsulates that", a Commission source told this website.A Commission spokesperson gave further clarification: "A more useful way to think about it, is a single market for capital. 'Union' spurs all sorts of thoughts about the fact that you might have sort of structures and frameworks, et cetera, in place – it's a single market for capital which is not yet in place because we see huge discrepancies between 28 member states, there are lots of barriers to cross-border investments."When asked why the Commission uses the word 'union', which for many will have federalist connotations, Hill noted that the process is more important than the end-goal."For me, the most important thing is to concentrate on what the elements are of the package and to make steps that allow you to make progress towards it, rather than what's in the name", he said."We are better to be honest and realistic on what we're trying to achieve, rather than to set ourselves huge figures, huge goals, that actually when time passes by, we're nowhere near hitting."Business: "excellent" proposals-Industry lobby groups welcomed the publication of the strategy paper, which BusinessEurope head Markus Beyrer said contained "excellent" proposals."The action plan is realistic in recognising EU companies' heavy reliance on bank lending, but at the same time rightly seeks to make equity financing a more viable option, even for small businesses with limited domestic market investment opportunities", noted the association of European chambers of commerce and industry."The Commission's plans will tackle major barriers to cross-border investment arising from tax, insolvency law and fragmented market structures", said the Association for Financial Markets in Europe in a statement.NGO Finance-Watch was more sceptical, especially about the securitisation proposal, which it said "goes in the right direction but does not truly learn the lessons from the crisis". The non-profit group fears "the main beneficiaries are likely to be the 'too-big-to-fail' banks that manufacture securitisations".

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THE POPE TALKED WITH KIM DAVIS IN HIS WASHINGTON VISIT.AND THE ARAB ABBAS RAISES HIS ARAB FLAG AT THE UN FOR THE FIRST TIME.SINCE THERE NOWHERE EVER THAT SAYS A PALESTINIAN EVER EXISTED.SO CALLED PALS ARE NOTHING BUT A BUNCH OF WANNA BE IMPORTANT ARABS.

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)

ISRAEL SATAN COMES AGAINST

1 CHRONICLES 21:1
1 And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel.

GENESIS 12:1-3
1  Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I (GOD) will shew thee:
2  And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:
3  And I will bless them that bless thee,(ISRAELIS) and curse (DESTROY) him that curseth thee:(DESTROY THEM) and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.

ISAIAH 41:11
11  Behold, all they that were incensed against thee (ISRAEL) shall be ashamed and confounded: they shall be as nothing;(DESTROYED) and they that strive with thee shall perish.(ISRAEL HATERS WILL BE TOTALLY DESTROYED)

ISRAELS TROUBLE

JEREMIAH 30:7
7 Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble;(ISRAEL) but he shall be saved out of it.

DANIEL 12:1,4
1 And at that time shall Michael(ISRAELS WAR ANGEL) stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people:(ISRAEL) and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation(May 14,48) even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.
4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro,(WORLD TRAVEL,IMMIGRATION) and knowledge shall be increased.(COMPUTERS,CHIP IMPLANTS ETC)

President Abbas raises Palestinian flag for first time at UN-Associated Press By EDITH M. LEDERER-SEPT 30,15-YAHOONEWS

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas raised the Palestinian flag at the United Nations for the first time on Wednesday with a promise that it will be raised soon in Jerusalem, "the capital of our Palestinian state."More than 300 ministers, diplomats and well-wishers who crowded into the rose garden at U.N. headquarters where a temporary flagpole had been erected for the ceremony applauded his words.Abbas told the crowd it was an historic moment on the Palestinian road to independence. Palestine  was designated as a non-member observer state at the United Nations in November 2012 and Palestinian statehood also has been recognized by many countries across Asia, Africa and Latin America.As the black, white, green and red flag went up the flagpole, cheers and shouts of "Peace! Peace! Palestine!" erupted.The Palestinians campaigned for a General Assembly resolution that was overwhelmingly approved on Sept. 10 allowing U.N. observer states to fly their flags alongside those of the 193 U.N. member states. The Holy See and Palestine and are the only two non-member U.N. observer states.In contrast to the Palestinians, the Holy See flag was raised outside U.N. headquarters alongside flags of the 193 U.N. member states without fanfare or ceremony just before Pope Francis arrived last Friday to address the General Assembly. The permanent flagpole for the Palestinian flag is already in place beside it.U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called Wednesday a day of "pride" and "hope" for Palestinians around the world.He urged the Palestinians to pursue their long-held dream for their own state by first uniting Gaza and the West Bank, and he urged Israel and the Palestinians to revive negotiations that collapsed last year and conclude "a successful peace process."That will lead to the unfurling of the Palestinian flag "in its proper place — among the family of nations as a sovereign member state of the United Nations," Ban said.

Israel undermines U.S. peace effort, Palestinian Abbas tells U.N-Reuters By Louis Charbonneau and Hugh Bronstein

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday accused Israel of sabotaging U.S. efforts to broker peace and said that Israeli security operations at the Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem could lead to a religious war.In an address to the United Nations General Assembly before a ceremony for the raising of the Palestinian flag at U.N. headquarters in New York, Abbas said that the Palestinian Authority no longer considered itself bound by the accords signed with Israel in the mid- 1990s.Repeating what the Palestinian Authority has been saying for at least half a decade, Abbas said the agreements would not apply as long as Israel supports settlements of Israelis in the West Bank and refuses to release Palestinian prisoners."You are all aware that Israel undermined the efforts made by the administration of President Barack Obama in past years, most recently the efforts of Secretary of State John Kerry aimed at reaching a peace agreement through negotiations," Abbas told the 193-nation General Assembly.Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said in response that Abbas' speech was "deceitful and encourages incitement and lawlessness in the Middle East.""We expect and call on the (Palestinian) Authority and its leader to act responsibly and accede to the proposal of ... Israel and enter into direct negotiations with Israel without preconditions," it said, adding that Abbas "does not intend to reach a peace agreement." Obama, whose relations with Netanyahu have been strained, addressed the assembly on Monday but did not mention Israel or the Palestinians, an unusual omission.Abbas praised French efforts to revive stalled peace negotiations and called for a national unity government that would unite the fractious Palestinian political scene."We are determined to preserve the unity of our land and our people," Abbas said. "We seek to form a national unity government that functions according to the program of the Palestine Liberation Organization, and we seek to hold presidential and legislative elections."Abbas' Fatah controls the West Bank while Hamas, branded a terrorist organization by Israel and the United States, controls the Gaza Strip.Israeli-Palestinian strife has risen sharply in recent weeks as Arab states and Palestinians have accused Israeli forces of violations at Al-Aqsa mosque, one of Islam's holiest places.Abbas said Israel's use of "brutal force" at the mosque could "convert the conflict from a political to religious one, creating an explosive in Jerusalem and in the rest of the Occupied Palestinian Territory."Even though Palestine is not a member of the United Nations, the General Assembly adopted a Palestinian-drafted resolution that permits non-member observer states to fly their flags alongside those of full member states. Palestine and the Vatican are the only non-member observer states.In 2012, the General Assembly approved the de facto recognition of the sovereign state of Palestine. That followed a failed bid by the Palestinians to secure full U.N. membership.(Additional reporting by Ori Lewis in Jerusalem; Editing by Grant McCool)

COUNTRIES WITH ISRAEL AND THE ENEMIES OF 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
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.

With 'ring of fire' at EU border, some EU lawmakers want better defense-Reuters By Robin Emmott-SEPT 30,15-YAHOONEWS

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union countries should be required to defend each other given the growing conflicts on their borders, center-right EU lawmakers said on Wednesday, urging governments to consider a collective defense policy similar to NATO.As the EU confronts the failure of its neighborhood policy and faces conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East, the biggest political grouping in the European Parliament called for an EU equivalent of NATO's Article 5, which considers an attack on one member as an attack against all."The security environment necessitates that European defense stops being a paper tiger and becomes a fully-fledged policy providing equal security ... for all member states," the center-right European People's Party (EPP) said in a policy paper."To the south and east Europe is facing an arc of instability. The expected ring of friends became a ring of fire," it said, referring to the Ukraine crisis with Russia and wars in the Middle East which have displaced millions of people - hundreds of thousands of whom have sought refuge in Europe.While the EPP paper is only a proposal, it reflects the growing debate in Brussels over whether the European Union, an economic and trading powerhouse, should pay a greater role in global security and rely less on the United States.Despite falling defense budgets, EU governments have only limited cooperation between their armed forces. So-called EU Battlegroups of rapidly deployable forces, operational since 2007, have yet to be used.European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, also a conservative, called in March for a common EU army, arguing that NATO was not enough because not all members of the transatlantic defense alliance are in the EU.Of Europe's major powers, France is sympathetic toward such an idea, backed by eastern Europe governments that fear Russian aggression and want the EU to be able to act military. Britain prefers to act through NATO. Germany, scarred by the legacy of World War Two, is reluctant to take military action overseas."We cannot continue free-riding on the Americans," said Polish EPP lawmaker Jacek Saryusk-Wolski, who authored policy paper. "There are also times when the United States may not wish to act and when Europe needs to."NATO's article on collective defense has only been invoked once, following the Sept. 11 2001 attacks on the United States.(Reporting by Robin Emmott; editing by Philip Blenkinsop and Dominic Evans)

France: 'curious' Russian strikes in Syria not against Islamic State-Reuters By John Irish and Jean-Baptiste Vey-SEPT 30,15-YAHOONEWS

UNITED NATIONS/PARIS (Reuters) - France said it was "curious" that Russian air strikes in Syria on Wednesday had not targeted Islamic State militants and a diplomatic source added that Moscow's action appeared aimed at supporting President Bashar al-Assad against other opposition groups in the country's civil war.The diplomatic source said it was in line with Russia's stance that until there was a viable alternative to Assad, Moscow would not drop its support for him in the war that began in 2011 after a government crackdown on anti-Assad protests."Russian forces struck Syria and curiously didn't hit Islamic State," Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian told lawmakers in Paris.A French diplomatic source said the strikes, which seemed to have been carried out near Homs, an area crucial to Assad's control of western Syria."It is not Daesh (Islamic State) that they are targeting, but probably opposition groups, which confirms that they are more in support of Bashar's regime than in fighting Daesh," the source said, speaking on condition of anonymity.France has in the past trained and equipped Syrian rebels who have been vetted by its intelligence services and are deemed not to be linked to Islamist groups. It has also taken part in U.S. training programs, officials have said, and supports the Western-backed Syrian National Coalition.In response to the Russian attacks and its proposals for a U.N. Security Council resolution to fight Islamic State and al-Qaeda affiliates, Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said he welcomed all those who wanted to fight terrorism, but that Moscow had to meet three conditions.He said Russia could not be ambiguous over who the enemy was, had to push Assad to stop indiscriminate barrel bombing of civilian populations and had to make clear that Assad would not be in government after a political transition."The Syrian people need to be told that their executioner will not be there in the future," Fabius said.A second French diplomatic source said Russia's air strikes did not suggest Moscow was ready to do that. "We can't work (together) in these conditions," the source said. Syrian's Foreign Minister Walid al-Moualem accused France of "supporting terrorism.""What we have heard from the representative of France today clearly shows the true role played by France with regards to supporting terrorism," he told the U.N. Security Council. "They are inept and are not worthy of being a permanent member of the Security Council."Russia said it was ready to open "standing channels of communication" with the U.S.-led coalition bombing Islamic State militants in Syria and asked the Security Council to approve a resolution on fighting "terrorist groups."(This story has been refiled to say "executioner," instead of "executor" in ninth paragraph)(Reporting by Jean-Baptiste Vey and Dominique Vidalon in Paris; Writing by John Irish at the United Nations; Editing by Louis Charbonneau and Grant McCool)

US gives anti-artillery kit to Ukraine-By EUOBSERVER-SEPT 30,15

Today, 16:27-The US Wednesday authorised the transfer of $20mn of counter-artillery radar equipment to Ukraine. The State Department said the early warning systems will "save the lives of Ukrainian soldiers and civilians". News comes same day Russia repeated threats of trade sanctions against Ukraine if it implements an EU free-trade pact.

Russia launches Syria air strikes-By EUOBSERVER-SEPT 30,15

Today, 16:25-Russia said Wednesday it launched air-strikes against Islamic State (IS) in Homs, Syria, after its MPs backed military action by 162-0. US officials told Reuters the strikes targeted the Free Syrian Army, the moderate anti-Syrian government opposition. Analysts note Syria has replaced Ukraine as the main topic on Russian TV.

Ukraine, Nato rebuke Putin on Syria By Andrew Rettman-SEPT 30,15-EUOBSERVER

BRUSSELS, Today, 09:18-The Ukrainian president, and a top Nato general, have accused Russia of trying to hoodwink the international community on Syria.Ukraine's Petro Poroshenko told the UN assembly in New York on Tuesday (29 September) that Russia's proposal to join Western powers in a new anti-Islamic State (IS) coalition is a "cool story, but really hard to believe".He noted that Russia has, for the past year and a half, "conducted an open and unprovoked aggression against my country".He said Russia, in order to "mislead the world community … takes off the insignias of its military servicemen and the identification marks of its military equipment".He also said it's fighting Ukraine by "financing terrorists and mercenaries, and [by] supplies of arms and military equipment to illegal armed groups"."How can you urge an anti-terrorist coalition, if you inspire terrorism right in front of your door?", he asked.Poroshenko spoke after Putin, on Monday, secured US agreement to join forces in Syria.The US leader, Barack Obama, said it doesn’t mean an end to sanctions on Russia over Ukraine.But their handshake has prompted concern the Syria initiative will lead to lowering of Western pressure.The coalition project comes after Putin quietly deployed fighter jets and helicopters at a base in Latakia, on Syria's Mediterranean Sea coast.He says the aircraft could join Western strikes on IS, in support of Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad’s ground troops.But for his part, Philip Breedlove, Nato's top military commander, believes the Latakia build-up has nothing to do with counter-terrorism.He told a meeting of the German Marshall Fund, a US think tank, on Monday, that Russia is also installing high-tech air defences at the site."As we see the very capable air defence [systems] beginning to show up in Syria, we're a little worried about another A2/AD bubble being created in the eastern Mediterranean", he said."These very sophisticated air defence capabilities are not about [IS], they're about something else … high on Mr. Putin's list in Syria is preserving the regime against those that are putting pressure on the regime".A2/AD is jargon for "anti-access/area denial" - systems which deter Nato air or naval assets from entering a combat zone.Breedlove said Russia already has A2/ADs in the Baltic Sea and Black Sea regions, depicting its Syria move as an expansion of Russian influence rather than a counter-IS scheme.Meanwhile, Putin's idea that Assad, his main Middle East ally, should be kept in power to help defeat jihadists, is gaining traction in some EU capitals - notably Berlin.But for his part, the EU Council president, Donald Tusk, told the UN on Tuesday the refugees coming to Europe are fleeing Assad as much as they’re fleeing IS."Today the circle of proponents of the idea that Bashar al-Assad should be part of Syria's transition is growing", he noted."Yet we cannot forget that millions of people have fled his horrific methods of trying to secure stability in Syria. During my trips to the region, I was told that Assad's victory would only lead to another exodus".

Russia begins Syria air strikes as war enters volatile new phase-Reuters-SEPT 30,15-YAHOONEWS-By Andrew Osborn and Phil Stewart

MOSCOW/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Russia launched air strikes in Syria on Wednesday in the Kremlin's biggest Middle East intervention in decades, but Moscow's assertion that it had hit Islamic State was immediately disputed by the United States and rebels on the ground.The air strikes plunged the four-year-old civil war in Syria into a volatile new phase as President Vladimir Putin moved forcefully to assert Russian influence in the unstable region.The attacks also raised the dangerous specter of Washington and Moscow running air strikes concurrently and in the same region, but without coordination.U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter said he had directed U.S. military officials to meet with their Russian counterparts "as soon as possible" to discuss ways to make sure they do not come into conflict.The United States said a Russian official in Baghdad warned it to keep American aircraft that have been pressing a daily bombing campaign against Islamic State positions to stay out of Syrian airspace during Moscow's air strikes. But the United States continued its air operations, saying it targeted Islamic State near the Syrian city of Aleppo. Putin said he was striking against Islamic State and helping Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, long Russia's closest ally in the region, in this aim.But Washington is concerned that Moscow is more interested in propping up Assad, who the United States has long held should leave office, than in beating Islamic State. Assad's opponents in the brutal civil war include rebel groups that oppose both him and Islamic State and that are supported by the United States and other Western countries.The Russian defense ministry said it carried out about 20 flights over Syria, hitting eight Islamic State targets and destroying an Islamic State command post and an operations center in a mountainous area, Russian agencies reported.Syrians living in rebel-held areas of Homs province said the violence unleashed by the Russian air force unleashed a whole new level of devastation on their towns. Jets flying at higher altitudes than the Syrian air force emitted no noise to alert the people below to raids reported to have killed at least 33 civilians, including children. Moscow's intervention means the conflict in Syria has been transformed in a few months from a proxy war, in which outside powers were arming and training mostly Syrians to fight each other, to an international conflict in which the world’s main military powers except China are directly involved in fighting.Russia joined the United States and its Arab allies, Turkey, France, Iran and Israel in direct intervention, with Britain expected to join soon, if it gets parliamentary approval.Carter said of the strikes, "It does appear that they were in areas where there probably were not ISIL forces, and that is precisely one of the problems with this whole approach." ISIL is one of the acronyms for Islamic State, which has seized control of large areas of Syria and Iraq over the past year.Notice of the attack came from a Russian official in Baghdad who asked the United States to avoid Syrian airspace during the mission, U.S. State Department spokesman John Kirby said.-DANGER IN THE SKIES-Moscow's move meant that warplanes from both the United States and Russia will be sharing the skies above Syria."In this heated situation there is a great danger of further misunderstandings," German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said at the United Nations.Reflecting growing tension between the big powers, U.S. Secretary John Kerry phoned his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov early on Wednesday to tell him the United States regarded the strikes as dangerous, a U.S. official told Reuters, speaking on condition of anonymity.White House spokesman Josh Earnest said Russia was moving to "ramp up" support for Assad, adding, "They've made a significant military investment now in further popping him up."Earnest called it "an indication of how concerned they are about losing influence in the one client state that they have in the Middle East."At least 200,000 people have been killed and millions driven from their homes since the civil war began in 2011 when Assad's forces moved to crush peaceful protests against his family's four-decade rule.In Moscow, Putin said the air strikes would be limited in scope and that he hoped Assad was ready for political reform and a compromise for the sake of his country and people."I know that President Assad understands that and is ready for such a process. We hope that he will be active and flexible and ready to compromise in the name of his country and his people," Putin told reporters.Kerry said Washington would have "grave concerns" if Russia hit Syrian targets where Islamic State fighters were not present. Speaking at the U.N. Security Council, Kerry also reiterated Washington's view that the militant group "cannot be defeated as long as Bashar al-Assad remains president of Syria." Areas of Homs province struck by the Russians are controlled by an array of rebel groups including several operating under the banner of the "Free Syrian Army," activists, locals and rebels said.The Homs area is crucial to Assad's control of western Syria. Insurgent control of that area would bisect the Assad-held west, separating Damascus from the coastal cities of Latakia and Tartous, where Russia operates a naval facility.-'CHANNELS OF COMMUNICATION'-The Russian air strikes came two days after Putin met with U.S. President Barack Obama at the United Nations and the two agreed their armed forces should hold talks to avoid coming into conflict in Syria.Lavrov said Russia was ready to open "standing channels of communication" with the U.S.-led coalition bombing Islamic State militants.Russian jets went into action after the upper house of the Russian parliament gave Putin unanimous backing for strikes following a request for military assistance from Assad.The last time the Russian parliament granted Putin the right to use military force abroad, a technical requirement under Russian law, Moscow seized Crimea from Ukraine last year.Putin said Russia's military involvement in the Middle East would involve only its air force and would be temporary. One of the reasons for getting involved was the need to stop Russian citizens who had joined the ranks of Islamic State from later returning home to cause trouble, he said.Russia has been steadily dispatching military aircraft to a base in Latakia, regarded as an Assad stronghold, after the Syrian government suffered a series of battlefield reverses.Moscow has already sent military experts to a recently established command center in Baghdad which is coordinating air strikes and ground troops in Syria, a Russian official told Reuters.Russia's involvement in Syria will be a further challenge for Moscow, which is already intervening in Ukraine at a time when its own economy is suffering from low oil prices and Western sanctions.(Additional reporting by Lidia Kelly, Daria Korsunskaya, Alexander Winning, Gabriela Baczynska, Vladimir Soldatkin, Maria Tsvetkova and Tom Perry and Mariam Karouny in Beirut, Sylvia Westall, Jean-Baptiste Vey in Paris, Phil Stewart in Washington; Writing by Andrew Osborn and Will Dunham; Editing by Giles Elgood and Frances Kerry)

Syrian opposition head says Russia intervening to prolong Assad-Reuters By John Irish-SEPT 30,15-YAHOONEWS

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Russia only wants to keep Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in power and has no intention of fighting Islamic State militants in Syria, the head of Syria's Western-backed political opposition said on Wednesday.Khaled Khoja, who became president of the National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces in January, told Reuters in an interview that Russian air strikes on Wednesday had hit four districts in the Homs area, killing 36 civilians, but no rebel fighters."Russia is intervening not to fight ISIL (Islamic State), but to prolong the life of Assad and support the continuous killing on a daily basis of civilians," Khoja said, adding that the areas targeted were where opposition groups had defeated Islamic State a year ago."It is obvious the Russians didn't come to Syria to fight ISIL, they are coming to support the regime. They know they are supporting a killer."Despite some criticism over its legitimacy in Syria, the National Coalition remains one of the main parties in international discussions to end the four-year-old civil war, which has killed more than 240,000 and displaced millions.The coalition has been accused of slipping into virtual irrelevance on the battlefield as Islamist and Kurdish groups have grown stronger, but has been working on establishing a new military command structure to head up rebel fighting groups.Khoja, who said 15 military groups in Syria were part of the coalition, said the fighting groups on the ground were still not being given the means to defend themselves against barrel bombs."The lack of support and hesitation from our friends has led us to this situation," he said. "We're asking for protection for civilians. We have asked for sophisticated weapons ... but until now our supporters are still hesitating from providing this support."Khoja, an ethnic Turkmen and medical doctor, criticized the current efforts to train and equip non-Islamic State or al-Qaeda-linked groups, including by the United States, and called for a complete overview of the process.The United States stopped pulling new recruits from the battlefield in Syria for training outside the country after some of the U.S.-trained rebels deserted and handed over some of their equipment to Islamist militants."The current approach of train and equip of Syrians is not working," Khoja said. "What we need is much bigger and faster training and (they) need to train the fighters defending Syrian people in southern and western areas."He put the numbers of "Free Syrian Army" fighters at 70,000, excluding Kurdish PYD forces, who are deemed as some of the most effective fighters in the country."They need to be designated as an official army," Khoja said. "It's very slow."Khoja dismissed suggestions the United States or other Western countries were softening their position on Assad's future."They are trying to have a practical approach to get him to leave power, but our position is clear," he said."In the negotiation period, we have not put any preconditions, but in the transitional period it's very clear that Assad has no role in this transitional government."(Reporting by John Irish; Writing by Michelle Nichols; Editing by David Storey and Jonathan Oatis)

CHINA AND KINGS OF THE EAST MARCH TO ISRAEL 2ND WAVE OF WW3 (200 MILLION MAN ARMY)

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.(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)

Series of bombs in southwest China kills at least seven-Reuters-SEPT 30,15-YAHOONEWS

BEIJING (Reuters) - A series of package bombs exploded on Wednesday in the southwest China city of Liuzhou, killing at least seven people and injuring 51, state media said.The official Xinhua news agency said police had determined the blasts were a "criminal" act and identified the suspect as a 33-year-old local man surnamed Wei, but added the investigation was continuing.Media images showed a collapsed building, smoke and streets strewn with rubble in Liuzhou in Guangxi region. Two people were missing, state radio said on its microblog.Bombs were sent to 13 places ranging from hospitals and shopping malls to prisons and government offices, reports said, adding that a terrorist attack had been ruled out.The Ministry of Public Security has sent a team of experts to help with the investigation, Xinhua said. Guangxi sits on the border with Vietnam and has several ethnic minorities, but is generally peaceful.Disaffected or mentally unstable Chinese people have set off explosions in public places in the past. Explosives are relatively easy to come by, as they are widely used in China's large mining industry.Such "sudden incidents", as Chinese authorities refer to them, are sometimes seen as linked to a widening gap between rich and poor and anger at corruption or environmental problems.Hundreds have died in recent years in China's far western region of Xinjiang, in violence blamed by the government on Islamist militants, but that unrest only occasionally spills over into other parts of the country.(Reporting by Megha Rajagopalan, Ben Blanchard and Judy Hua; Editing by Andrew Roche)

Weapons bound for Yemen seized on Iranian boat: coalition-Reuters By William Maclean-SEPT 30,15-YAHOONEWS

DUBAI (Reuters) - Saudi-led coalition forces said on Wednesday they had seized an Iranian fishing boat loaded with weapons on its way to deliver them to Houthi fighters in Yemen.The announcement came a day after tribal fighters backed by the coalition won control of a strategic dam in central Yemen from Houthi forces following weeks of fighting east of the capital Sanaa.The coalition, which also includes Bahrain, Qatar, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates, has been battling the Iranian-backed Houthis for more than six months.It aims to restore to power President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi's government, forced out by the Houthis, and contain what Gulf Arab states see as Tehran's growing influence in their backyard.As part of the campaign, Saudi-led naval forces have imposed a near-blockade to prevent weapons from reaching the Houthis, resulting in long delays and mandatory searches for shippers in the region.A coalition statement said 14 Iranian sailors were detained on the boat, which was carrying 18 anti-armored Concourse shells, 54 anti-tank shells, shell-battery kits, firing guidance systems, launchers and batteries for binoculars."The Command of the Coalition ... foiled an attempt to smuggle weapons destined to the Houthi militias, on an Iranian fishing boat," the statement said, adding the vessel was seized on Saturday some 150 miles off Salalah in southern Oman.There was no immediate comment from Iran.The coalition has long accused Iran of arming the Houthis, who seized control of Yemen starting in September last year, claiming they were out to fight corruption and to force Hadi to bring them into the government.-BIGGEST GAIN-The seizure of the Marib dam is the biggest success for several weeks for the Yemeni militia fighting alongside Gulf troops. Together they have pushed toward the Houthi-controlled capital Sanaa 110 km (70 miles) west of the dam, but progress has been slowed by landmines and stiff resistance from Houthi forces in rugged mountains. Pictures on the front pages of Gulf dailies showed the foreign troops and local tribesmen planting the flags of the UAE, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia on the dam.Two suspected al Qaeda militants were killed in what was believed to be a U.S. drone strike on a vehicle traveling in al-Wadi district in Marib on Wednesday, local tribesmen said.U.S. forces have conducted many strikes in the area. Washington acknowledges using drones against militants but does not publicly comment on the operations.Further to the southwest, pro-Hadi fighters suffered their first significant loss in weeks in Taiz province, where a district fell to the Houthis and their allies in Yemen's army on Tuesday.Residents and local officials said the Houthis appeared to be mobilizing their forces for a southern push in the nearby area of Kirsh, about 75 km (45 miles) from Aden.Six months of civil war and hundreds of coalition air strikes have killed more than 5,400 people in Yemen, according to the United Nations, and exacerbated widespread hunger and suffering.(Additional reporting by Mohammed Ghobari in Sanaa and Marwa Al-Malik in Dubai; Writing by Noah Browning and Sami Aboudi; Editing by Andrew Roche)

Reconstructionists to ordain rabbis with non-Jewish partners-Associated Press-SEPT 30,15-YAHOONEWS

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Judaism's Reconstructionist movement announced Wednesday it will allow rabbinical students with non-Jewish partners to become rabbis, a decision that ends years of debate and that officials anticipate will help retain students who go on to become "wonderful rabbis."The change at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College in suburban Philadelphia comes after a faculty vote last week. It revokes a longstanding ban on admitting or graduating students with a non-Jewish partner. Students were allowed to graduate if their partner chose to convert."We know that there are inter-partnered Jews who are passionate about living Jewish lives," college President Deborah Waxman said. "We understand these passionate Jews to be part of our Jewish future."Waxman said the old policy forced out students who would have made "wonderful rabbis."About 60 percent of Jews who married between 2000 and 2013 had a non-Jewish spouse, according to the Pew Research Center. The college, which represents the seat of Reconstructionism, graduates eight to 10 rabbis per year.Although students were made aware of the policy before applying, the program takes five or six years. "Along the way, things happen," Waxman said. "People fall in love."That's what happened to rabbinical student Mychal Copeland, whose relationship became serious during her studies and forced a decision at her graduation in 2000. Her partner ultimately converted."We wanted to deal with it on our own timeline and not have the external pressure on us ... but the process was much more complicated because of the policy," Copeland told The Associated Press. Copeland, a rabbi now married to her partner, has been lobbying to get the policy revoked. Reconstruct ionism is the fourth-largest movement in American Judaism. It teaches that every generation must reconstruct Judaism to be relev ant and meaningful for its time. The U.S. and Canada have more than 100 congregations.Rabbi Lester Bronstein of Bet Am Shalom Synagogue in White Plains, New York, part of the Reconstructionist movement for nearly 60 years, said he's very disappointed with the change. Though his congregation has long welcomed intermarried couples, Bronstein said he sees his job as encouraging people to create Jewish homes as families.Intermarried couples who want to create a Jewish home "generally are looking for a very clear model of commitment for making a Jewish home, which you generally see when both partners (rabbi and spouse) are Jews," he said.His synagogue's leadership plans to review its relationship to the Reconstructionist movement."We are not going to pick up our marbles and go home," he said.The rabbinical college currently serves 44 students at its campus in Wyncote. Officials said federal law prevented them from disclosing how many might be affected by the policy change.

09/30/2015 -VATICAN INSIDER-Francis meets Kim Davis and tells her to “stay strong!”-Kim Davis-During the Pope’s visit to Washington he held a confidential meeting with the Kentucky county clerk who went to prison for refusing to issue a marriage license to a gay couple-marco tosatti

rome-Pope Francis held a secret meeting with Kim Davis, the Kentucky county clerk who went to prison for refusing to issue a marriage license to a gay couple. The meeting is particularly significant in light of the clear statements on conscientious objection, which Francis made on the return flight from the US.The meeting was first reported by Inside the Vatican and confirmed by Kim Davis’ lawyer. Davis and her husband were in Washington for a different reason: they were to receive the “Cost of Discipleship” award on Friday 25 September from The Family Research Council at the Omni Shoreham Hotel.The approximately 15-minute meeting took place in secret at the Apostolic Nunciature, on Thursday afternoon last week. It does not seem to have been organised by the US Bishops’ Conference, nor does it appear to be the initiative of a single US bishop. Both of Davis’ parents are Catholic but it does not seem as though she or her husband belong to the Roman Catholic Church. Instead they ate Apostolic Pentecostal Christians.Davis and the Pope embraced. “The Pope spoke in English,” Kim Davis said in a statement. “There was no interpreter. ‘Thank you for your courage,’ Pope Francis said to me. I said, ‘Thank you, Holy Father.’ I had asked a monsignor earlier what was the proper way to greet the Pope, and whether it would be appropriate for me to embrace him, and I had been told it would be okay to hug him. So I hugged him, and he hugged me back. It was an extraordinary moment. ‘Stay strong,’ he said to me. Then he gave me a rosary as a gift, and he gave one also to my husband, Joe. I broke into tears. I was deeply moved.” Davis plans to give the rosary the Pope offered her to her parents.Kim expressed her shock at the honour of meeting the Pope. “Why me of all people? Who am I to have been given this rare opportunity? I’m just a county clerk who loves Jesus and wants to serve him with all my heart, Pope Francis was kind, genuinely affectionate and very sweet. Then he said to me, ‘Please pray for me.’ And I said to him, ‘Please pray for me also, Holy Father.’ And he assured me that he would pray for me.”The meeting was probably kept secret in order to avoid it being “politicised” bearing in mind President Obama and the Democrats’ position on the issue of same-sex couples. But there is a clear link between this brief but emotionally charged encounter and the Pope’s words on the flight back to Rome.During the in-flight press conference en route to Rome, ABC News’ Terry Morgan, asked the Pope the following question: “Holy Father, you visited the Little Sisters of the Poor and we were told that you wanted to show your support for them and their case in the courts. And, Holy Father, do you also support those individuals, including government officials, who say they cannot in good conscience, their own personal conscience, abide by some laws or discharge their duties as government officials, for example in issuing marriage licenses to same sex couples. Do you support those kinds of claims of religious liberty?”Francis’ reply was this: “I can’t have in mind all cases that can exist about conscience objection. But, yes, I can say the conscientious objection is a right that is a part of every human right. It is a right. And if a person does not allow others to be a conscientious objector, he denies a right. Conscientious objection must enter into every juridical structure because it is a right, a human right. Otherwise we would end up in a situation where we select what is a right, saying 'this right that has merit, this one does not.' It is a human right. It always moved me when I read, and I read it many times, when I read the Chancon Roland, when the people were all in line and before them was the baptismal font – the baptismal font or the sword. And, they had to choose. They weren’t permitted conscientious objection. I always felt moved as a boy when I read the Song of Roland, in which there is a scene about the Muslims queuing up at the baptismal font or before the sword. And, they had to choose. Conscientious objection was not permitted. It is a right and if we want to make peace we have to respect all rights. It is a right and if we want to make peace we have to respect all rights."“Would that include government officials as well?” Moran insisted. To which Pope Francis answered: “It is a human right and if a government official is a human person, he has that right. It is a human right."In the late morning, the director of the Vatican Press Office issue the following statement: “I am not denying the meeting took place but I have no further comment to make”.

09/30/2015 -VATICAN INSIDER-Francis: Family as new starting point for rethinking the development model-Pope Francis-At today’s General Audience, Francis asked faithful to pray for him during the Synod and about his trip to Cuba and the US: “God always wants to build bridges; we are the ones who build walls! But walls fall down, always!"iacopo scaramuzzi

vatican city-“The family needs to be the new starting point for rethinking and changing the pattern of development, for the good of the entire human family." The Pope said this in his first General Audience since his return from the World Meeting of Families in Philadelphia, asking the faithful gathered in St. Peter’s Square to pray for the Ordinary Synod on the Family which begins Sunday.  Speaking about his visit to Cuba and the US (19-28 September), Francis underlined that in the 20th century the US reached “maximum levels of economic and technological development without rejecting its religious roots,” he also reflected on the figure of Junípero Serra, whom the Pope recently canonized in Washington, highlighting the “Christian roots” of the Cuban people and emphasising that a “bridge” is being built between Cuba and the US “thanks to God”: “God always wants to build bridges, we are the ones who build walls! But walls fall down, always!”“' Misionero de la Misericordia': That’s how I presented myself in Cuba, a land rich in natural beauty, culture and faith. The mercy of God is greater than any wound, any conflict, any ideology; and with this gaze of mercy I could embrace the whole Cuban people, at home and abroad, beyond all division.” After recalling his pilgrimage to the Virgin of Charity of Cobre, Francis, who played a vital role in the turning point in US-Cuban relations, stressed: "I was able to share with the Cuban people the hope of the fulfilment of the prophecy of St. John Paul II: that Cuba open to the world and the world open to Cuba. No more closures, no more exploitation of poverty, but freedom in dignity. This is the path that shakes the hearts of many young Cubans: not a way of escape of easy money, but of responsibility, of service to others, of care for the weak. A path that draws strength from the Christian roots of the people, who have suffered so much. A path in which I encouraged especially the priests and all consecrated persons, students and families. May the Holy Spirit, through the intercession of Mary Most Holy, nurture the seeds that we have laid." The journey "from Cuba to the United States of America was a symbolic step,” Francis said, “a bridge thank God that is being rebuilt. God always wants to build bridges; we are the ones who build walls! But walls fall down, always! "“In Washington, I met with the political authorities, ordinary people, the Bishops, priests and consecrated persons, the poor and marginalized. I reminded them that the greatest wealth of the country and its people are their spiritual and ethical heritage,” Francis said, hardly looking away from his prepared text. “And so I wanted to provide incentives to pursue the social construction in fidelity to its basic principle, namely, that all men are created equal by God and endowed with inalienable rights such as life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. These values, shared by all, found their fulfilment in the Gospel, as was underlined in the canonization of Father Junipero Serra, a Franciscan, a great evangelizer of California. Saint Junipero shows the path of joy: to go and share with others the love of Christ. This is the path of the Christian, but also of every man that has known love: to not keep for himself but to share it with others. The United States of America was born and raised on this religious and moral foundation, and on this foundation they can continue to be a land of liberty and welcome and to cooperation to a more just and fraternal world.”Francis also reiterated that, "talking to the representatives of the nations” at the UN headquarters in New York in the footsteps of my predecessors, I renewed my encouragement and that of the Catholic Church to the institution and its role in promoting development and peace, recalling in particular the need for united and effective efforts for the care of creation. I also reaffirmed the call to stop and prevent violence against ethnic and religious minorities and against civilian populations … Both in Washington and in New York I visited some charitable and educational realities emblematic of the enormous service that the Catholic communities - priests, religious, lay people - offer in these fields.”"The high point of the trip was the World Meeting of Families in Philadelphia, where the horizon expanded to take in the whole world, through the 'prism', so to speak, of the family. he family, that is, the fruitful covenant between man and woman, is the answer to the great challenge of our world, which is a double challenge: fragmentation and standardization, two extremes which coexist and support each other, and together they support the economic model of consumerism. he family is the answer because it is the cell of a society that balances the personal and community dimension, and that at the same time can be the model of a sustainable management of goods and resources of creation. The family is the principal agent of an ecology drive, because it is the primary social subject, which contains within itself the two basic principles of human civilization on earth: the principle of communion and the principle of fecundity.”After expressing a “warm fraternal thanks” to the Archbishop of Philadelphia, Mgr. Chaput, “for his efforts, his piety, his enthusiasm and the great love for the family which he showed by organising this event,” Francis concluded: "In hindsight, it is no accident, rather it is providential, that the message, indeed, the testimony of the World Meeting of Families should come right now from the United States of America, that is the country that in the last century has reached the maximum economic and technological development without rejecting its religious roots. Now these same roots are asking us to start afresh from the family to rethink and change the pattern of development, for the good of the entire human family."At the start of the catechesis the Pope explained to the faithful gathered in St. Peter’s Square, that a group of sick people was watching the audience on big screens in the Paul VI Hall: “Since the weather isn’t great we chose to accommodate them there to make them feel more comfortable and so that they are sheltered from the rain.” “Let us join together and greet one another”.

09/29/2015 -VATICAN INSIDER-Francis’ role as bridge-builder striving for dialogue between right and left-Philadelphia - The Pope waves from the plane before take-off on his return flight to Rome-What is the legacy of the Pope’s visit to America? Gianni Riotta gives his analysis-Gianni Riotta

Jeannine Hill Fletcher, a feminist theologian at New York’s Fordham University, laments the “missed opportunities” during Francis’ visit to the US, to deal with the complex issues that divide the Catholic Church in America. Where were the realities of women, the realities of gay and lesbian Catholics, the realities of racism?”  R. R. Reno, editor-in-chief of the conservative Catholic journal First Thing, who is on the other side of the fence, is just as perplexed, saying traditionalist Catholics would have asked the Pope to be tougher on abortion and he also steered clear of the same-sex marriage debate.Fletcher and Reno’s grumblings in The Washington Post, show that the militant sections within the US Church, culture and politics, with their convoluted accounts of issues that need to be addressed - such as paedophilia, women priests, same-sex marriage, abortion, Cuba, greenhouse effect, market excesses, migrants, racism… - have not quite grasped the core message of Francis’ preaching. Francis’ humble and clear invitation in his historic speech to Congress, for individuals and institutions to overcome their divisive animal instinct and the blind arrogance – which the ancient Greeks used to call hybris – of thinking only of ourselves and our partners as possessors of the right values, seeing everyone else as enemies. Speaking about the existential and collective loneliness which social media bring upon young people, the Pope urged believers and non-believers alike to listen and to engage in dialogue. Had he been tougher on the subjects dearest to him, Francis would have drowned out the message that is closest to his heart: seeking out our common sense of humanity, those things that unite us in adversity instead of driving us apart. In an America that is exhausted by a cultural war that has lasted 25 years, with the 2016 presidential election campaign – with Trump leading the way – promising new opprobria, the Pope is asking those “who cannot pray, to send good wishes my way,” in an effort to meet each other halfway. The rigid right will accuse him of “paganism”, the campuses’ snobbish left will mock his parish priest-like affability but the tears of the former Speaker of the House, the Catholic Republican, Boehmer, who is repulsed by political intolerance, show that the Pope has correctly identified angry resentment as the source of today’s woes. After all, didn’t Varro himself state in the “De Lingua Latina”, that the etymology of the word “Pope” is “bridge-builder”?

09/29/2015-VATICAN INSIDER-Georgia executes Kelly Gissendaner despite Pope's appeal-The death penalty in the US-The Pope’s words did not resonate deeply enough to stop Gissendaner’s execution which went ahead in the US state of Georgia yesterday.Two more executions are due to take place in Oklahoma and Virginia-Giorgio Bernardelli

Rome-Just hours after Pope Francis left the US, his appeals for the abolition of the death penalty risk going down the plughole. Francis presented his appeal twice during his visit to the US: once before Congress and then again on Sunday when he embraced detainees at the Curran-Fromhold Correctional Facility in Philadelphia. Francis said: “It is painful when we see prison systems which are not concerned to care for wounds, to soothe pain, to offer new possibilities.” At 7 pm local time yesterday evening, 47-year-old mother of two, Kelly Gissendaner,was executed at the Jackson prison in Georgia. She had been charged with instigating her lover to murder her husband in 1997. This is the first case of a woman being put to death in Georgia since 1945.Twice last March Kelly underwent the procedure for the administration of the lethal injection but her drug-induced death was called off at the last moment: the first time because of a snow storm and the second time because of an irregularity in one of the tubes containing the chemicals. Her only chance of being spared was for the Board of Pardons and Parole – which met in the afternoon to re-examine her case – to release her. Her two daughters had called for her to be spared, while the father’s family wanted the execution to go ahead. During the years spent in prison, Kelly had become a changed woman and had even studied for a degree in Theology. Yesterday, the Archbishop of Atlanta, Wilton Gregory also called for the execution to be halted: Although I share in the sorrow of Douglas Gissendaner’s family, Kelly is also a daughter of God and our Christian faith teaches us that every person has their own worth and dignity,” he wrote.In the end, however, her execution went ahead after the US Supreme Court on Tuesday denied last-minute requests for a stay of execution and the Board of Pardons and Parole rejected her latest appeal for clemency.There are now two other executions scheduled to take place in two American states. One of them is particularly controversial. At 3 pm local time today it could be Richard Glossip’s turn. The 52-year- old man has been accused of murdering the owner of the motel where he worked as an administrator. Glossip continues to plead innocent and the only piece of evidence against him is the testimony of the man who actually perpetrated the murder, Justin Sneed. Sneed reported Glossip as the instigator and he himself was sentenced to life imprisonment instead of the death penalty. The lawyers of the convicted party presented fresh evidence on the about Sneed’s unreliability but yesterday, the Supreme Court of Oklahoma dismissed it with three judges voting against the re-opening of the trial and two in favour. Sister Helen Prejean, a standard-bearer in the fight against the death penalty, has gone out of her way to help Richard Glossip announcing that she will be his side until the end.Yet another case, this time in Virginia, involves 50-year-old Alfredo Prieto, a serial killer accused of crimes including rape. Prieto, originally from El Salvador, emigrated to the US with his family during the civil war. His story is linked to another big issue Pope Francis raised during his visit to the US: Latinos and the opportunities the American dream offers them. Prieto’s execution is scheduled for Thursday night and has sparked a heated debate. The controversy is partly to do with the fact that in order to circumvent the boycott on drugs used in lethal injections, Virginia’s judicial system purchased the execution chemical from Texas.


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PUTINS SPEECH TEXT AND OTHER PUTIN NEWS ATTACKING THE WESTS FREINDS AGAINST SYRIA.

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)

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.
31  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)

REVELATION 18:3-6,19-21
3 For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication,(U.S.A) and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her,(U.S.A) and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.
4 And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her,(AMERICA) my people,(CHRISTIANS,JEWS) that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.
5 For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.
6 Reward her (AMERICA-NEW YORK) even as she rewarded you,(WITH FALSE FLAG TERRORISM) and double unto her double according to her works:(DOUBLE-EMP 1ST,THEN RUSSIA NUKE ATTACKS U.S.A) in the cup which she hath filled fill to her double.(PROBABLY A RUSSIAN CYBER ATTACK WILL SET THE WHOLE SITUATION UP AS RUSSIA HACKS THE USA ARMY COMPUTERS.THEN THE EMP,THEN THE NUKE ATTACK)
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.
20 Rejoice over her, thou heaven, and ye holy apostles and prophets; for God hath avenged you on her.
21 And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all.

OTHER SPEECHES
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EU ON THE MIDEAST
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RAISING OF THE BALESTINIAN FLAG AT THE UN-ABBAS SAYS NEXT WE RAISE FLAG OVER JERUSALEM
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CONFLICTS IN THE MIDEAST
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Dispatch-Russia’s First Strikes in Syria Hit U.S. Ally, Not Islamic State-Moscow says its enemy is ISIS, but the initial phase of its air war in Syria hit American-backed rebels battling Syrian strongman Bashar al-Assad.By David Kenner-September 30, 2015

Russia’s First Strikes in Syria Hit U.S. Ally, Not Islamic State-Barack Obama’s administration said Wednesday that it doesn’t know whom Russia is bombing inside Syria. Rebel leaders on the ground there say they know precisely whom Moscow is targeting — and it isn’t the Islamic State.Instead, Russia’s first airstrikes in Syria — which dominated the final day of the United Nations General Assembly session — appear to have struck a rebel group that likely was vetted by the CIA, uses U.S.-made weapons, and has publicly backed the international coalition fighting the Islamic State. The group is also part of the ad hoc alliance of militias battling the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, which means that the early phase of Moscow’s military intervention will strengthen Assad at least as much as it will weaken the Islamic State.Jamil al-Saleh, a defected Syrian army officer who is now the leader of the rebel group Tajammu al-Aaza, told AlSouria.net that the Russian airstrikes targeted his group’s base in al-Lataminah, a town in the western Syrian governorate of Hama. That area represents one of the farthest southern points of the rebel advance from the north and is therefore a crucial front line in the war. An alliance of Syrian rebel factions, including both the al Qaeda-affiliated al-Nusra Front and groups considered by Washington to be more moderate, successfully drove Assad regime forces out of the northern governorate of Idlib and are now pushing south into Hama.Tajammu al-Aaza released a video of the airstrike and its aftermath before Saleh’s statement. Syrian security sources also confirmed that a Russian airstrike took place in al-Lataminah. The Russian Defense Ministry, meanwhile, released a video of what it said was one of the strikes.U.S. officials were quick to criticize the strikes, which they said had hit targets that didn’t appear to be linked to the Islamic State. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said at the Pentagon that the strikes were in areas “where there probably were not ISIL forces,” using an alternate acronym for the group. White House spokesman Josh Earnest, for his part, told reporters that it was “too early for me to say exactly what targets they were aiming at and what targets were actually hit.”The strikes come amid a flurry of diplomatic maneuvering at the United Nations, where Moscow and Washington have traded potshots about who is to blame for the rise of the Islamic State and who should take the lead in fighting the group.In public comments at the United Nations, Russian officials have said that the U.S.-led campaign against the Islamic State isn’t working and instead have called for working more closely with Assad and Iran to defeat the group. But rather than spurring cooperation over the shared threat posed by the Islamic State, Moscow’s moves threaten to usher in a new era of conflict with Washington by weakening groups devoted to the fight against Assad while bolstering Tehran’s influence in the region.Tajammu al-Aaza, for instance, has posted several videos of its fighters deploying U.S.-made anti-tank missiles against Syrian regime forces. One video shows fighters launching a missile at a Syrian army tank stationed at a checkpoint in the Hama countryside.Experts say those videos show that the group is clearly receiving American weaponry. According to N.R. Jenzen-Jones, the director of specialist technical intelligence consultancy Armament Research Services, or ARES, the video of the attack on the Syrian tank shows a U.S.-made AN/TSQ-136 missile guidance set, consistent with other U.S.-made TOW missile systems that ARES has documented being used in Syria.According to Jenzen-Jones, the missiles “offer a noteworthy increase in anti-armor capability when compared to the majority of systems which are employed by the Syrian Arab Army and various rebel groups.”U.S.-made military equipment, most prominently anti-tank missiles, have been distributed to rebels through an operations center, called the Military Operations Command (MOC), that’s organized by countries arming the anti- Assad opposition, which allows them to vet the groups receiving support. The operations center reportedly includes U.S. intelligence officers, which suggests that the United States authorized the distribution of weapons to Tajammu al-Aaza.“Tajammu al-Aaza is widely reputed to receive support from the MOC, and the fact that the group has documented its use of U.S.-made anti-tank missiles over a period of several months strongly suggests this is the case,” said Noah Bonsey, a senior analyst for the Middle East at the International Crisis Group. “They seem to have passed MOC vetting, which suggests the U.S. and other state backers view them as mainstream rather than extremist, and relatively reliable.”One reason the United States may have allowed arms to flow to Tajammu al-Aaza is because rather than being an ally of the Islamic State, it has actually endorsed the U.S.-led air campaign against the jihadist movement. The group signed a statement that referred to the Islamic State as a “threat to the Syrian revolution” and that called on the U.S.-led international coalition to expand its air campaign to strike the Assad regime.Earlier Wednesday, State Department spokesman John Kirby said in a statement that a Russian official had informed the United States that Russia would begin flying missions over Syria shortly before the strikes began. It’s not clear whether Moscow also told the United States that the first group it would bomb would be one that had received arms from Washington.

Amb. Marc Ginsberg Become a fan-Fmr. U.S. Ambassador to Morocco; White House Middle East Adviser-Putin's Axis of Dictators May Save Assad-Posted: 09/30/2015 2:11 pm EDT

What ails our depressed, strife-torn world: not enough dictators. That's what Vladimir Putin (oh, I mean DOCTOR) Putin prescribed to the UN...just take an Assad and a Rouhani and call him in the morning.This week's UN General Assembly cavalcade of superstar dictators was a depressing juxtaposition coming on the heels of a remarkably inspirational U.S. papal visit.Just picture the Turtle Bay turnstile...Pope Francis' inspiring address urging world leaders to set aside their differences to heal the world's poverty and oppression. Flash forward to Russia's Putin grasping the UNGA lectern after a decade's absence asserting more dictators will create a new "stable" world order - by bombing Syria and Ukraine. The Amen Choir of UNGA autocrats were on their feet ready to dance the Barynya.For good measure, Iran's Supreme Leader stand-in Hassan Rouhani could not resist the temptation to pile on the U.S. "we must not forget the roots of today's wars...can be found in the occupation, invasion and military intervention..." by the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq, and the U.S.'s unwarranted support for the inhumane actions of the "Zionist regime" (aka Israel). That's the guy we just signed a nuclear agreement with whose nation is the world's number one state sponsor of terror, and which is Putin's closest Assad ally in Syria.Putin seized upon the catastrophic rise of ISIS as an alibi to triple down on Russia's support for Syria's Assad regime -- asserting that the road to defeating ISIS lies through Damascus. Typical feint by Putin. It seems that the only person surprised with Putin's air strikes in Syria is President Obama - and that alone says all that needs to be said about this White House's abject naiveté why it's Syria "policy" is an unmitigated disaster on every count.Putin also would have none of Obama's clarion call to statesmanship. He defiantly asserted that "...we can no longer tolerate the current state of affairs in the world." The real bogeyman of global disorder, Putin asserted, is NATO and the United States. In a vain attempt to curry favor with his new-found bully buddies Putin exclaimed that the United Nations is the only institution that stands in the way of American domination of the world.What is most diabolical about Putin's orchestrated defense of Assad wrapped in an anti-ISIS appeal is how much his brazen assessment is gaining traction in the least likely of places -- western Europe. Europe's leaders, overrun by a torrent of Syrian refugees with no end in sight, are throwing their lot in with Putin on Assad - bowing to the cruel reality on the ground that Assad won't be leaving anytime soon for fear that the torrent of refugees would turn into a tsunami of boat people. And any rush to force Assad and his family to the exit could make matters worse by enabling ISIS to establish its caliphate capital in Damascus.Obama had once infamously declared "Assad must go." Now, the U.S. is talking about Assad's "managed transition." That is code for we are in no hurry to get rid of Assad, either. So much for Secretary Kerry's empty admonitions. That is the sad reality of the ground game in Syria today - coupled with a free-fire zone free-for-all of Russian, American, French, Syrian, Turkish and "coalition" warplanes (add Israeli drones) buzzing overhead without an order of battle bombing targets with abandon in an almost cartoonish display of indiscriminate air might -- all without a strategy.-Let's take a step back.-Despite all the kabuki drama in New York nothing that the U.S. says or does is going to change the Syrian equation -- nada. Obama forfeited having much of a say about Assad's coming or going when he took his red-line ante off the table and failed when confronted at every Syrian policy turn of opportunity in the road thereafter. Too late arming moderate rebels. Too late providing urgent humanitarian relief. Too late comprehending the threat that a disintegrating Syria poses to U.S. homeland security. Too late coordinating a policy with Turkey. Too late recognizing ISIS' threat. Too late demanding Sunni states stop supporting extremist anti-Assad forces. Too late to put any political pressure on Assad. The list of "too lates" is bottomless.And yet, even today before Congress, Kerry enjoys boasting about HIS 43 nation anti-ISIS coalition - quantity over quality - a paper tiger coalition that has hardly affected hardly anything on the ground because Obama won't permit U.S. Special Forces target spotters to make that air coalition effective. Kerry is flailing as is his want. He demands a political solution in Syria that would lead to a "transition government" but there is no one to hand power off to.If Kerry had the presence of thought to stay off his plane for a while and get back to basics perhaps the U.S. could come up with a plan which would: a) refocus Arab and European efforts against ISIS by organizing the boots on the ground needed to carve up ISIS; b) put some time in Baghdad to shore up its internal efforts against ISIS; 3) cajole Syria's other patron states (China and Iran) to create an anti-ISIS coalition that has some teeth to it.Alternatively, everything that Russia does, will - for the short term -- favorably impact Assad's bloody hold on power. So why is anyone surprised Russia is pouring more arms into its client state...Russia has been doing that for decades and has a convenient naval base at Tartus to unload all that equipment. Neither Iran, China, or Hezbollah (and Israel...yes ISRAEL) want to part with the devil they know, and each in their own way are determined to keep Assad's regime from collapsing. They know ISIS and Al Nusra Front will pillage and murder any Shiite left standing.Mind you, Putin is no hero here. While Russia's escalation may keep the Caliph out of Damascus, it will certainly fuel the refugee exodus, produce even more vicious fighting and civilian carnage, and serve as Hollywood blockbuster advertisement for Sunni recruits to join ISIS' forces. Afghanistan redux??But Obama's Middle East foreign policy team put his leaky ship of state on this course - get out of the Middle East, turn the keys over to the Iranians; pivot to Asia, and exit stage left declaring victory with honor. Anyone warning them of Syria's consequences was shown the door including Robert Ford -- our best mind on Syria who was the courageous envoy there.Regrettably, the unmitigated stubbornness of his National Security Council team to grasp the strategic essentials of the Middle East is the root cause of this Greek tragedy. Now, it is too late to throw our weight around without a plan that focuses on what really is essential to U.S. interests in Syria. And so far the Administration hasn't a clue what an effective plan may look like. It talks as if it has a plan, but that, too, is fantasy.

Here are some remedies: 1. Syria is Putin's Bait: The U.S. never had a geo-political stake in Syria. Syria has been Russia's #1 client state for 50 years. Syria is Russia's #1 purchaser of arms. China, too, is Assad's major big-power benefactor. Assad's fall would convert Syria into a partitioned Sunni extremist-dominated state pouring Jihadis into Chechnya and Dagestan. Putin has a geo-strategic imperative to prevent that from happening and to expand Russia's influence with the new Middle East world order that Obama and Co. have bequeathed him. The emerging Russian-Iranian Shiite alliance had the vote in the Middle East and has even snared Iraq into it - again much to the surprise of the Obama team. The U.S. must refocus to ensure that Lebanon and Jordan remain able to withstand the consequences of the Syrian extremist and refugee crisis now within their borders. That requires more strategic planning with Israel, Egypt and Turkey...I don't see any of that happening. 2. ISIS is Job #1 for US & Allies. The U.S. and its European allies have few anti- Assad cards left. The two cards that Obama and his team have failed to play so are 1) robbing ISIS of its territorial bases in Raqqa Syria and Mosul, Iraq; and 2) containing the flow of ISIS fighters to and from those areas. If Putin is going to join in and help - all the better. Cutting the Caliphate down the middle (i.e., severing its lines of communications between Syria and Iraq is essential to robbing ISIS of its attraction to Jihadis and to its own legitimacy. Putin and Iran will never be brow-beaded into changing their conduct in Syria - so Kerry should quit bellyaching about it and focus instead on protecting U.S. interests where they matter, i.e., numbers 1 & 2, above. That means organizing an ARAB expeditionary force to chop up ISIS's territory. I don't see Kerry doing anything of the sort, yet. By the way, the Europeans have yet to be brought into a planning enterprise to get this organized. 3. Homework/Homework on Homeland Security. A bi- partisan Congressional Committee issued a damning report yesterday on the Obama Administration's "two hands tied behind its back" military and intelligence failures against ISIS asserting that the U.S. is losing the battle to stop Americans from traveling abroad to enlist in ISIS. More than 25,000 foreigners have flocked to war-torn Syria and Iraq since 2011 to fight with Islamist terrorist groups including ISIS, according to U.S. government estimates noted in the report. The Obama Administration has a bipartisan "F" grade on the one danger that matters most to Americans in this conflict. We have no military, political, or strategic policy in place to deal with this. All the more reason why we need to refocus our energies and stop our Syrian flailing. 4. Just a Few Boots on the Ground. I have repeatedly called for the U.S. to unshackle itself by permitting forward spotting teams to support air strikes against ISIS - without which 75% of coalition airstrikes fail to occur or miss their targets. Obama has consistently overruled his military and intelligence advisers -- as if these boots on the ground would short-sheet his pledge not to have boots on the ground in Syria. Penny wise-pound foolish, to say the least. 5. Safe Havens/No Barrel Bombing Fly Zones. The U.S. and Turkey have been haggling over whether there should be safe-havens for Syrians defended by U.S. and Turkish forces. The U.S. can do so much more to provide the urgent humanitarian relief Syrians desperately need within Syria while leveraging strategic safe-havens to place more military pressure on the Assad regime by training Syrians to defend these safe-havens that would also be no-fly zones against Assad's dreaded barrel bombing. We have a coalition Mr. Kerry...43 members? Where are they??? Syria is so broken it is inevitable that it is going to be partitioned - the only question is when and whether the extremists will hold just a sliver of what is left. Our goal must be principally to expedite the demise of ISIS and its threat to us, and push Sunni Arab states to end their clandestine support for ISIS and Al Nusra in Syria and Iraq. Russia, Iran and China are all in for Assad until someone finally takes him down, which is surely to happen given the hundreds of thousands seeking retribution against him.What remains of America's Middle East policy is now in the hands of our adversaries. It will take a new, bold, creative foreign policy team to pick up the pieces of this broken china - and that is 15 months away.Follow Amb. Marc Ginsberg on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/@ambmcg

Read Putin’s U.N. General Assembly speech By Washington Post September 28

Russian President Vladimir Putin addressed the U.N. General Assembly on Monday and said the West was making an "enormous mistake" by not cooperating with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in the fight against the Islamic State militant group. Here is the full text of his remarks.-PUTIN (THROUGH INTERPRETER): Your excellency Mr. President, your excellency Mr. Secretary General, distinguished heads of state and government, ladies and gentlemen, the 70th anniversary of the United Nations is a good occasion to both take stock of history and talk about our common future.In 1945, the countries that defeated Nazism joined their efforts to lay solid foundations for the postwar world order.But I remind you that the key decisions on the principles guiding the cooperation among states, as well as on the establishment of the United Nations, were made in our country, in Yalta, at the meeting of the anti-Hitler coalition leaders.The Yalta system was actually born in travail. It was won at the cost of tens of millions of lives and two world wars.This swept through the planet in the 20th century.Let us be fair. It helped humanity through turbulent, at times dramatic, events of the last seven decades. It saved the world from large-scale upheavals.The United Nations is unique in its legitimacy, representation and universality. It is true that lately the U.N. has been widely criticized for supposedly not being efficient enough, and for the fact that the decision-making on fundamental issues stalls due to insurmountable differences, first of all, among the members of the Security Council.However, I'd like to point out there have always been differences in the U.N. throughout all these 70 years of existence. The veto right has always been exercised by the United States, the United Kingdom, France, China, the Soviet Union and Russia later, alike. It is absolutely natural for so diverse and representative an organization.When the U.N. was established, its founders did not in the least think that there would always be unanimity. The mission of the organization is to seek and reach compromises, and its strength comes from taking different views and opinions into consideration. Decisions debated within the U.N. are either taken as resolutions or not. As diplomats say, they either pass or do not pass.Whatever actions any state might take bypassing this procedure are illegitimate. They run counter to the charter and defy international law. We all know that after the end of the Cold War — everyone is aware of that — a single center of domination emerged in the world, and then those who found themselves at the top of the pyramid were tempted to think that if they were strong and exceptional, they knew better and they did not have to reckon with the U.N., which, instead of [acting to] automatically authorize and legitimize the necessary decisions, often creates obstacles or, in other words, stands in the way.It has now become commonplace to see that in its original form, it has become obsolete and completed its historical mission. Of course, the world is changing and the U.N. must be consistent with this natural transformation. Russia stands ready to work together with its partners on the basis of full consensus, but we consider the attempts to undermine the legitimacy of the United Nations as extremely dangerous. They could lead to a collapse of the entire architecture of international organizations, and then indeed there would be no other rules left but the rule of force.We would get a world dominated by selfishness rather than collective work, a world increasingly characterized by dictate rather than equality. There would be less of a chain of democracy and freedom, and that would be a world where true independent states would be replaced by an ever-growing number of de facto protectorates and externally controlled territories.What is the state sovereignty, after all, that has been mentioned by our colleagues here? It is basically about freedom and the right to choose freely one's own future for every person, nation and state. By the way, dear colleagues, the same holds true of the question of the so-called legitimacy of state authority. One should not play with or manipulate words.Every term in international law and international affairs should be clear, transparent and have uniformly understood criteria. We are all different, and we should respect that. No one has to conform to a single development model that someone has once and for all recognized as the only right one. We should all remember what our past has taught us.We also remember certain episodes from the history of the Soviet Union. Social experiments for export, attempts to push for changes within other countries based on ideological preferences, often led to tragic consequences and to degradation rather than progress.It seemed, however, that far from learning from others' mistakes, everyone just keeps repeating them, and so the export of revolutions, this time of so-called democratic ones, continues. It would suffice to look at the situation in the Middle East and North Africa, as has been mentioned by previous speakers. Certainly political and social problems in this region have been piling up for a long time, and people there wish for changes naturally.But how did it actually turn out? Rather than bringing about reforms, an aggressive foreign interference has resulted in a brazen destruction of national institutions and the lifestyle itself. Instead of the triumph of democracy and progress, we got violence, poverty and social disaster. Nobody cares a bit about human rights, including the right to life.I cannot help asking those who have caused the situation, do you realize now what you've done? But I am afraid no one is going to answer that. Indeed, policies based on self-conceit and belief in one's exceptionality and impunity have never been abandoned.It is now obvious that the power vacuum created in some countries of the Middle East and North Africa through the emergence of anarchy areas,  which immediately started to be filled with extremists and terrorists.Tens of thousands of militants are fighting under the banners of the so-called Islamic State. Its ranks include former Iraqi servicemen who were thrown out into the street after the invasion of Iraq in 2003. Many recruits also come from Libya, a country whose statehood was destroyed as a result of a gross violation of the U.N. Security Council Resolution 1973. And now, the ranks of radicals are being joined by the members of the so-called moderate Syrian opposition supported by the Western countries.First, they are armed and trained and then they defect to the so-called Islamic State. Besides, the Islamic State itself did not just come from nowhere. It was also initially forged as a tool against undesirable secular regimes.Having established a foothold in Iraq and Syria, the Islamic State has begun actively expanding to other regions. It is seeking dominance in the Islamic world. And not only there, and its plans go further than that. The situation is more than dangerous.In these circumstances, it is hypocritical and irresponsible to make loud declarations about the threat of international terrorism while turning a blind eye to the channels of financing and supporting terrorists, including the process of trafficking and illicit trade in oil and arms. It would be equally irresponsible to try to manipulate extremist groups and place them at one's service in order to achieve one's own political goals in the hope of later dealing with them or, in other words, liquidating them.To those who do so, I would like to say — dear sirs, no doubt you are dealing with rough and cruel people, but they're in no way primitive or silly. They are just as clever as you are, and you never know who is manipulating whom. And the recent data on arms transferred to this most moderate opposition is the best proof of it.We believe that any attempts to play games with terrorists, let alone to arm them, are not just short-sighted, but fire hazardous (ph). This may result in the global terrorist threat increasing dramatically and engulfing new regions, especially given that Islamic State camps train militants from many countries, including the European countries.Unfortunately, dear colleagues, I have to put it frankly: Russia is not an exception. We cannot allow these criminals who already tasted blood to return back home and continue their evil doings. No one wants this to happen, does he?Russia has always been consistently fighting against terrorism in all its forms. Today, we provide military and technical assistance both to Iraq and Syria and many other countries of the region who are fighting terrorist groups.We think it is an enormous mistake to refuse to cooperate with the Syrian government and its armed forces, who are valiantly fighting terrorism face to face. We should finally acknowledge that no one but President Assad's armed forces and Kurds (ph) militias are truly fighting the Islamic State and other terrorist organizations in Syria.We know about all the problems and contradictions in the region, but which were (ph) based on the reality.Dear colleagues, I must note that such an honest and frank approach of Russia has been recently used as a pretext to accuse it of its growing ambitions, as if those who say it have no ambitions at all.However, it's not about Russia's ambitions, dear colleagues, but about the recognition of the fact that we can no longer tolerate the current state of affairs in the world. What we actually propose is to be guided by common values and common interests, rather than ambitions.On the basis of international law, we must join efforts to address the problems that all of us are facing and create a genuinely broad international coalition against terrorism.Similar to the anti-Hitler coalition, it could unite a broad range of forces that are resolutely resisting those who, just like the Nazis, sow evil and hatred of humankind. And, naturally, the Muslim countries are to play a key role in the coalition, even more so because the Islamic State does not only pose a direct threat to them, but also desecrates one of the greatest world religions by its bloody crimes.The ideologists (ph) of militants make a mockery of Islam and pervert its true humanistic (ph) values. I would like to address Muslim spiritual leaders, as well. Your authority and your guidance are of great importance right now.It is essential to prevent people recruited by militants from making hasty decisions and those who have already been deceived, and who, due to various circumstances found themselves among terrorists, need help in finding a way back to normal life, laying down arms, and putting an end to fratricide.

Russia will shortly convene, as the (ph) current president of the Security Council, a ministerial meeting to carry out a comprehensive analysis of threats in the Middle East.First of all, we propose discussing whether it is possible to agree on a resolution aimed at coordinating the actions of all the forces that confront the Islamic State and other terrorist organizations. Once again, this coordination should be based on the principles of the U.N. Charter.We hope that the international community will be able to develop a comprehensive strategy of political stabilization, as well as social and economic recovery, of the Middle East.Then, dear friends, there would be no need for new refugee camps. Today, the flow of people who were forced to leave their homeland has literally engulfed first neighboring countries and then Europe itself. There were hundreds of thousands of them now, and there might be millions before long. In fact, it is a new great and tragic migration of peoples, and it is a harsh lesson for all of us, including Europe.I would like to stress refugees undoubtedly need our compassion and support. However, the — on the way to solve this problem at a fundamental level is to restore their statehood where it has been destroyed, to strengthen the government institutions where they still exist or are being reestablished, to provide comprehensive assistance of military, economic and material nature to countries in a difficult situation. And certainly, to those people who, despite all the ordeals, will not abandon their homes. Literally, any assistance to sovereign states can and must be offered rather than imposed exclusively and solely in accordance with the U.N. Charter.In other words, everything in this field that has been done or will be done pursuant to the norms of international law must be supported by our organization. Everything that contravenes the U.N. Charter must be rejected. Above all, I believe it is of the utmost importance to help restore government's institutions in Libya, support the new government of Iraq and provide comprehensive assistance to the legitimate government of Syria.Dear colleagues, ensuring peace and regional and global stability remains the key objective of the international community with the U.N. at its helm. We believe this means creating a space of equal and indivisible security, which is not for the select few but for everyone. Yet, it is a challenge and complicated and time-consuming task, but there is simply no other alternative. However, the bloc thinking of the times of the Cold War and the desire to explore new geopolitical areas is still present among some of our colleagues.First, they continue their policy of expanding NATO. What for? If the Warsaw Bloc stopped its existence, the Soviet Union have collapsed (ph) and, nevertheless, the NATO continues expanding as well as its military infrastructure. Then they offered the poor Soviet countries a false choice: either to be with the West or with the East. Sooner or later, this logic of confrontation was bound to spark off a grave geopolitical crisis. This is exactly what happened in Ukraine, where the discontent of population with the current authorities was used and the military coup was orchestrated from outside — that triggered a civil war as a result.We're confident that only through full and faithful implementation of the Minsk agreements of February 12th, 2015, can we put an end to the blood shed and find a way out of the deadlock. Ukraine's territorial integrity cannot be ensured by threat of force and force of arms. What is needed is a genuine consideration for the interests and rights of the people in the Donbas region and respect for their choice. There is a need to coordinate with them as provided for by the Minsk agreements, the key elements of the country's political structure. These steps will guarantee that Ukraine will develop as a civilized society, as an essential link and building a common space of security and economic cooperation, both in Europe and in Eurasia.Ladies and gentlemen, I have mentioned these common space of economic cooperation on purpose. Not long ago, it seemed that in the economic sphere, with its objective market loss, we would launch a leaf (ph) without dividing lines. We would build on transparent and jointly formulated rules, including the WTO principles, stipulating the freedom of trade, and investment and open competition.Nevertheless, today, unilateral sanctions circumventing the U.N. Charter have become commonplace, in addition to pursuing political objectives. The sanctions serve as a means of eliminating competitors.I would like to point out another sign of a growing economic selfishness. Some countries [have] chosen to create closed economic associations, with the establishment being negotiated behind the scenes, in secret from those countries' own citizens, the general public, business community and from other countries.Other states whose interests may be affected are not informed of anything, either. It seems that we are about to be faced with an accomplished fact that the rules of the game have been changed in favor of a narrow group of the privileged, with the WTO having no say. This could unbalance the trade system completely and disintegrate the global economic space.These issues affect the interest of all states and influence the future of the world economy as a whole. That is why we propose discussing them within the U.N. WTO NGO (ph) '20.Contrary to the policy of exclusiveness, Russia proposes harmonizing original economic projects. I refer to the so-called integration of integrations based on universal and transparent rules of international trade. As an example, I would like to cite our plans to interconnect the Eurasian economic union, and China's initiative of the Silk Road economic belt.We still believe that harmonizing the integration processes within the Eurasian Economic Union and the European Union is highly promising.Ladies and gentlemen, the issues that affect the future of all people include the challenge of global climate change. It is in our interest to make the U.N. Climate Change Conference to be held in December in Paris a success.As part of our national contribution, we plan to reduce by 2030 the greenhouse emissions to 70, 75 percent of the 1990 level.I suggest, however, we should take a wider view on this issue. Yes, we might defuse the problem for a while, by setting quotas on harmful emissions or by taking other measures that are nothing but tactical. But we will not solve it that way. We need a completely different approach.We have to focus on introducing fundamental and new technologies inspired by nature, which would not damage the environment, but would be in harmony with it. Also, that would allow us to restore the balance upset by biosphere and technosphere (ph) upset by human activities.It is indeed a challenge of planetary scope, but I'm confident that humankind has intellectual potential to address it. We need to join our efforts. I refer, first of all, to the states that have a solid research basis and have made significant advances in fundamental science.We propose convening a special forum under the U.N. auspices for a comprehensive consideration of the issues related to the depletion of natural resources, destruction of habitat and climate change.Russia would be ready to co-sponsor such a forum.Ladies and gentlemen, colleagues, it was on the 10th of January, 1946, in London that the U.N. General Assembly gathered for its first session.Mr. Suleta (ph) (inaudible), a Colombian diplomat and the chairman of the Preparatory Commission, opened the session by giving, I believe, a concise definition of the basic principles that the U.N. should follow in its activities, which are free will, defiance of scheming and trickery and spirit of cooperation.Today, his words sound as a guidance for all of us. Russia believes in the huge potential of the United Nations, which should help us avoid a new global confrontation and engage in strategic cooperation. Together with other countries, we will consistently work towards strengthening the central coordinating role of the U.N. I'm confident that by working together, we will make the world stable and safe, as well as provide conditions for the development of all states and nations.Thank you.(APPLAUSE)-END


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