The IDF fired a Tammuz missile Wednesday at a Syrian target across the northern border, in response to mortar shells from Syrian territory landing near an army position in the Golan Heights and injuring two soldiers.
According to the IDF, the target in Syria took a direct hit. It was not immediately clear if there were any casualties on the Syrian side.
As a result of the shelling from Syria earlier in the day, one Israeli soldier suffered light injuries from shrapnel and was taken by ambulance to a local hospital. The second soldier suffered shock and was treated on site.
It was the first time Israelis were injured in the spillover from the Syrian civil war.
Heavy fighting has been reported near the border for the last several days. On Tuesday, a group of shepherds fleeing the fighting crossed into Israel, but were sent back by IDF forces who intercepted them.
“The heavy battles are happening in the area around the north Golan in the village of Jubata al Khashab, and there have been heard many explosions from falling mortars,” a defense official told Maariv.
UN Middle East envoy Robert Serry told the Security Council last month that fighting on the Israel-Syria border could “jeopardize the ceasefire” between Jerusalem and Damascus that has been in place since 1974, monitored by UN peacekeepers.
[Turkey's status is worth watching, as they are a vital part of the Gog-MaGog coalition]
Rapidly re-Islamizing Turkey continues to embrace the jihad against Israel. "Hamas leader calls for end to talks with Israel, urges armed struggle," by Jack Khoury forHaaretz, October 9 (thanks to Maxwell):
The head of the political wing of Hamas, Khaled Meshal, implicitly called on the Palestinian Authority Wednesday to cease peace negotiations with Israel immediately, claiming that continuing the talks would endanger the status of Jerusalem. Meshal, who is living in Qatar with other Hamas leaders, was in Ankara...
[As stated before, the relative lack of interest in earthquakes by prophecy watchers, which is one of the birth pains we have been told to watch, is mystifying]
The images below are giving an easy overview of the number of damaging earthquakes so far this year. This overview does not zoom in to the kind of damage (collapsed houses vs “only” cracks in walls), but tries to show how frequently earthquakes can be damaging (even a few slightly damaged houses). In other words, if all households in the world would have an earthquake insurance policy, the graphics are showing how many times insurance companies would have to pay for damage.
The earthquake-report.com damage frequency statistics are simply the best in the world because no other instance is collecting so much information as we do.
Why are we doing this ? Since we started Earthquake-Report.com, a couple of years ago, we found out that only a very limited number of damaging earthquakes arrived in official lists. Discrepancies have their origin in differences like : Northern hemisphere vs Southern hemisphere, rich countries vs developing countries, populated areas vs remote areas, developed and free press vs poor and oppressed press etc. All this to show that even being the best in the world to find damaging earthquakes, we are convinced that we only reveal the Top of the Iceberg.
[It is interesting any time that a 'public figure' references prophecy for our age]
Congresswoman Michele Bachmann seems to think the guy on the street corner with the sign that reads “the end is near” might be on to something. The Minnesota congresswoman told Christian radio host Jan Markell “we are in God’s End Times” in an interview that aired this past weekend.
“Rather than seeing this as a negative, Jan, we need to rejoice, ‘Maranatha Come Lord Jesus, His day is at hand,’” she continued. “And so when we see up is down and right is called wrong, when this is happening, we were told this, that these days would be as the days of Noah. We are seeing that in our time.”
The host agreed, saying “We’re privileged to live [in these times].”
Former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Paul Craig Roberts warns that President Barack Obama could use the debt ceiling crisis to seize total power, by declaring a national emergency and passing an executive order in the name of preventing an economic collapse.
With the government still in shut down over the failure to pass a spending bill, the U.S. faces an October 17 deadline to raise the nation’s debt ceiling, which currently stands at almost $17 trillion dollars.
According to Roberts, there is a chance that Obama could exploit the disastrous consequences of a default to push for dictatorial control.
Roberts says that one of two scenarios will happen if Congress fails to make a temporary deal with the White House to raise the debt ceiling.
Either the Federal Reserve would simply lend the Treasury the money, similar to how they propped up foreign banks with at least $16 trillion in bailout funds, or Obama would “declare a ‘national catastrophe’ and simply assume the leadership of the government.”
“This would mean that the President, on his own authority, could raise the debt ceiling. So, either of those two events would happen if it looked like no deal was forthcoming from the Congress. It could be that President Obama, or others in the Executive Branch, are planning to use this crisis to invoke that Executive Order,” Roberts told KingWorldNews.
This would essentially render the US Congress a ceremonial body with no power and turn Obama into a Caesar-like figure.
In a speech to the Commonwealth Club, San Francisco, November 23, 2010, Peter Dale Scott gave a history of the various directives concerned with government continuity during a state of emergency. He showed that these directives could be used to supersede the Constitution.http://www.globalresearch.ca/continuity-of-government-is-the-state-of-emergency-superseding-our-constitution/22089
The ease with which both the Bush and Obama regimes were able to set aside the due process protections of the Constitution that prohibit indefinite detention and execution without conviction in a trial indicate that Professor Scott’s concern is justified that these directives could result in executive branch rule.
Scott describes how the executive branch efforts to provide government continuity in the aftermath of a nuclear attack dating from the Eisenhower administration were gradually converted into executive or national security (later Homeland Security) orders that confer secret powers to the White House for any event that the executive branch considers to be an emergency.
Generally these various executive orders and directives refer to “national emergencies,” or “national disasters.” However, President Bush’s National Security Presidential Directive/NSPD 51 and Homeland Security Presidential Directive/HSPD-20 issued on May 9, 2007 use the term “Catastrophic Emergency.” http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2007/05/20070509-12.html
The directives speak of “enduring constitutional government” which the president maintains by coordinating “as a matter of comity with respect to the legislative and judicial branches,” but it is up to the president and his advisor, the National Continuity Coordinator, to decide what constitutes constitutional government during a catastrophic emergency.
What comprises a catastrophic emergency? It is reasonable for a president to regard a government shutdown, which can threaten everything from national security to default and economic collapse, as a catastrophic emergency, and to take such steps as are necessary to prevent it, such as raising the debt ceiling, on his own authority.
I have great respect and admiration for Michelle Bachman! It is so sad to read the comment section on the article you posted Scott about her. People are so lost, hateful and deluded. They are calling what is good evil and what is evil good. They are so mixed up. So many of them are calling themselves "Christians" and then spewing their vile filth. For those who don't know, we are all nut jobs according to them.
ReplyDeleteWell now isn't the picture becoming a little more clear
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