Nine people killed as freak hailstorm rains massive boulders down on Indian villages

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Revelation 16:21

From the sky huge hailstones of about a hundred pounds each fell upon men. And they cursed God on account of the plague of hail, because the plague was so terrible.

 

 

Hailstones the size of boulders have rained down on villages in southern India.
At least nine people were killed when the violent weather hit several villages in the state of Andhra Pradesh.
The hailstorm which lasted for almost 20 minutes, destroyed crops, houses and live stock, causing devastating financial implications for residents.

Raining down: People cleaning the streets covered with large boulders of hailstorm Andhra Pradesh, India

Killed: At least nine people died when a violent hailstorm hit several villages of Andhra Pradesh in South India

WORLD'S DEADLIEST HAILSTORMS

The world's deadliest hailstorms -  perhaps the largest hailstones - occur on the Deccan Plateau of northern India and in Bangladesh.
The heaviest authenticated hailstone ever measured was 2.25 pounds - it fell in Bangladesh on April 14, 1986.
Anecdotal reports claimed the stones were the size of 'pumpkins' and ninety-two people died.
A hailstorm in the Moradabad and Beheri districts of India killed 246 people on April 30, 1888, the deadliest hailstorm on record in modern history.

Source: Wunderground

It was once-in-lifetime experience for people living in seven villages in Chevella, Moinabad and Shankarpally.  

 The hailstones started falling from the sky on Tuesday night and covered the entire villages under the snow-like blanket.

Some women were seen attempting to sweep up the massive boulders using flimsy brushes more suited to lighter debris.

Destruction: The hailstorm which lasted for almost 20 minutes destroyed the crops, houses and live stock with massive financial implication for the residents

Surprising: The hail storm covered the entire villages under the snow like blanket. This was once-in-a-lifetime experience for people living in seven villages such as Chevella, Moinabad and Shankarpally

Dr K. Sitarama, director, Meteorological Centre Hyderabad, said: 'The hailstorm was caused by an intense thunderstorm.
'Such occurances are highly localised and restricted to a small area.'
The storm in the south was extremely rare as the deadliest hailstorms, and perhaps the largest hailstones, in the world occur on the Deccan Plateau of northern India and in Bangladesh.


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Russia: Expert Predicts Civil War, Islamization of Army, Water Crisis in Egypt

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Isaiah 19 4-8

⁵ The waters of the river will dry up,
    and the riverbed will be parched and dry.
⁶ The canals will stink;
    the streams of Egypt will dwindle and dry up.
The reeds and rushes will wither,
⁷     also the plants along the Nile,
    at the mouth of the river.
Every sown field along the Nile
    will become parched, will blow away and be no more.
⁸ The fishermen will groan and lament,
    all who cast hooks into the Nile;
those who throw nets on the water
    will pine away.

 

 

Neither Christians, nor secular persons can live in the same state as fanatics. The radicals are trying to get their own way -- everyone else opposes this. The former have already come to power; this needs to be admitted; but they do not have full authority -- they share power with other forces. Hence all the continuing unrest -- it stems from the fanatics` desire to seize power completely.

 

It is against this background that certain other events that blow the situation apart, like some football match, periodically occur. And now the latest upsurge in violence. It is easy to explode the situation in Egypt.

 

I do not rule out the beginning of a civil war here, though equally things could not flare up on a large scale. We know from history that to overthrow one regime and establish another it is by no means necessary to seize the entire country. For example, in 1917, it took only St Petersburg. A similar scenario is entirely possible in Egypt too.

 

One thing is clear: The end of the country`s stability has arrived, the situation is no longer normalizing, and we will no longer see Egypt as it was before. Tourists will go there until they are actively blown up or shot.

 

It is impossible, however, to say absolutely definitely when global changes will occur in the country. But everything is heading toward this: toward civil war, the Islamization of the Army, a strike on Israel and defeat, and a water crisis during which there will not even be enough water for the population. All this is only a matter of time. Egypt`s development is heading only in one direction.

 

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Egypt’s Morsi rejects opposition calls for unity government as clashes claim more lives

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Isaiah 19 1-4

1 A prophecy against Egypt:

See, the Lord rides on a swift cloud
    and is coming to Egypt.
The idols of Egypt tremble before him,
    and the hearts of the Egyptians melt with fear.

² “I will stir up Egyptian against Egyptian—
    brother will fight against brother,
    neighbor against neighbor,
    city against city,
    kingdom against kingdom.
³ The Egyptians will lose heart,
    and I will bring their plans to nothing;
they will consult the idols and the spirits of the dead,
    the mediums and the spiritists.
⁴ I will hand the Egyptians over
    to the power of a cruel master,
and a fierce king will rule over them,”
    declares the Lord, the Lord Almighty.

 

 

Egypt’s President Morsi has rejected opposition calls to form a national unity government and start a dialogue to end the violence that has claimed dozens of lives. Two more protesters were killed in clashes near Tahrir Square on Wednesday.


­“In Egypt there is a stable government working day and night in the interests of all Egyptians,” Mohhamed Morsi said in a press conference in Berlin. He added that he is not planning to form new government before the upcoming parliamentary elections.

The National Salvation Front’s ElBaradei, a Nobel Peace Prize winner, said earlier on Wednesday that stopping the violence was a priority for everyone in Egypt.

­“We need an immediate meeting between the president, defense and interior ministers, the ruling party, the Salafis and the National Salvation Front to take urgent steps to halt the violence and start a serious dialogue,” ElBaradei tweeted. He also reiterated the demands of the opposition, including the formation of a national unity government and a commission to amend the Islamist-backed constitution.

ElBaradei’s has found unlikely support in the form of the Salafi Al-Nour Party, the ultra-conservative Islamist party that’s put forward its own initiative for resolving the Egyptian crisis. This has raised suspicions of division among Morsi’s Islamist allies.

Egypt must not be ruled “by a single faction… but there must be a real partnership in decision-making and administration,” Al-Nour’s Makhyoun told media after his meeting with the NSF.
Al-Nour has spoken in favour of a new “national salvation government,” and says it agrees with the NSF on forming a constitutional amendments committee and appointing a new prosecutor general.

Morsi’s Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) responded to ElBaradei’s call by saying such initiatives “are worthy of attention” if the intentions are “good” in a statement posted Facebook.
“The party will consult political forces under a national dialogue to reach the best solution supported by the majority,” the FJP statement said. The party’s Executive Committee will study all such initiatives, it added.

The statement made no mention of the conditions laid down by the opposition, which so far have been ignored by Morsi.

President Morsi has been holding his own national dialogue program, which has been boycotted by the opposition. Morsi’s dialogue “is to do with form and not content,” ElBaradei said.

Meanwhile, two more protesters were reportedly killed in the ongoing unrest in Cairo, bringing the total number of dead across the country to sixty. The victims were shot near Cairo’s Tahrir Square, an anonymous source told AP.

‘Hesitant president’

On Wednesday Morsi was in Germany. Under pressure both domestically and internationally, President Morsi is desperately trying to secure funds and get international support in his short EU tour, blogger and journalist Wael Eskandar told RT.

Eskandar believes that the “hesitant” president “is trying to secure his international relationships so that he can oppress the people back in his country.” He added that the protesters and the opposition view Morsi as a “lying president” and a “puppet” of Muslim Brotherhood’s Guidance Bureau.

But the pressure and the escalating violence is forcing both Morsi and the opposition to “find a way to real serious dialogue that people can commit to,” Eskandar said. If Morsi responds to the opposition’s demands for a national unity government and starts taking steps towards democratic reform in Egypt, “there might be a solution out of it,” Eskandar told RT.

A protester opposing Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi throws tear gas canister back at riot policeduring clashes along Qasr Al Nil bridge, which leads to Tahrir Square, in Cairo January 29, 2013. (Reuters/Mohamed Abd El Ghan)

 

Egyptians throw stones during clashes with riot police near Cairo's Tahrir Square, on January 30, 2013. (AFP Photo/Mohammed Abed)

 

Protesters throw tear gas canisters back to riot police (seen in the back) during clashes on Qasr el-Nil bridge, in Cairo January 29, 2013. (Reuters/Asmaa Waguih)

 

A protester opposing Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi stands in front of fire that they set during clashes with the riot police along Qasr Al Nil bridge, which leads to Tahrir Square, in Cairo January 29, 2013. (Reuters/Mohamed Abd El Ghany)

 

Egyptian protesters throw stones and use slingshots at riot policemen along Simon Bolivar Square, which leads to Tahrir Square, in Cairo January 30, 2013. (Reuters/Amr Abdallah Dalsh)

 

http://rt.com/news/egypt-opposition-calls-dialogue-109/

 

Endtime News Updates 1-31-13 with Hummingbird027

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jihadist website posted a new threat by al Qaeda this week that promises to conduct “shocking” attacks on the United States and the West

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A jihadist website posted a new threat by al Qaeda this week that promises to conduct “shocking” attacks on the United States and the West.
The posting appeared on the Ansar al Mujahidin network Sunday and carried the headline, “Map of al Qaeda and its future strikes.”
The message, in Arabic, asks: “Where will the next strike by al Qaeda be?” A translation was obtained by Inside the Ring.
“The answer for it, in short: The coming strikes by al Qaeda, with God’s Might, will be in the heart of the land of nonbelief, America, and in France, Denmark, other countries in Europe, in the countries that helped and are helping France, and in other places that shall be named by al Qaeda at other times,” the threat states.
The attacks will be “strong, serious, alarming, earth-shattering, shocking and terrifying.”

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Under a section of the post on the method of the attacks, the unidentified writer said the strikes would be “group and lone-wolf operations, in addition to the use of booby-trapped vehicles.”
“All operations will be recorded and published in due time,” the message said. “Let France be prepared, and let the helpers of France be prepared, for it is going to be a long war of attrition.”
The reference to France appears linked to the group’s plans for retaliation against the French-led military strikes in northern Mali in operations to oust al Qaeda terrorists from the North African country.
The Ansar al-Mujahidin network is a well-known jihadist forum that in the past has published reliably accurate propaganda messages from al Qaeda and its affiliates.
U.S. counterterrorism actions over the past 10 years have prevented al Qaeda from conducting major attacks. However, U.S. officials warn that the group continues to be dangerous, despite the killing of its top leaders in drone strikes and special operations.
A U.S. official said the threat is being taken seriously by the U.S. government.
“Extremists regularly make threats online,” he told Inside the Ring. “This one is not particularly unusual, but of course should be taken seriously.”
Retired officers on Hagel
Retired senior military officers on the right and left of the political spectrum are squaring off in the confirmation fight for former Sen. Chuck Hagel, President Obama’s nominee for defense secretary who is set to appear before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Thursday.
Conservative former officers say Mr. Hagel is the wrong person to head the Pentagon because of his soft-line views on Iran, hostility toward Israel and support for cuts in U.S. military and nuclear forces.

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GOD WILL DEAL WITH THE UN! YOU ARE WARNED UNITED NATIONS! UN: Israel Must Withdraw From Judea, Samaria

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The United Nations says Israel must withdraw all of its citizens from the regions of Judea and Samaria.

The recommendation came in a report issued Thursday by the U.N. Human Rights Council, which has a history of passing numerous biased resolutions condemning Israel for various alleged ‘crimes’ each year.

"Israel must, in compliance with Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention, cease all settlement activities without preconditions," the report said in part. "It must immediately initiate a process of withdrawal of all settlers from the occupied Palestinian territories."

Israel’s Foreign Ministry responded in a fiery statement immediately to the report, which claimed that Jewish settlement activity only “hampers peace efforts.”

In response, Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor said, “The Human Rights Council has sadly distinguished itself by its systemically one-sided and biased approach towards Israel.

“This latest report is yet another reminder of that,” he added.

At least half a million Israelis live in Judea, Samaria and areas of Jerusalem restored to the capital during the 1967 Six Day War.

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/164771#.UQqtyZrnbIW

GOG/MAGOG set up: Iran threatens ‘grave consequences’ for Israel after Syria strike

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GOG/MAGOG

Damascus says attacks will not go unanswered, as Tehran joins Russia and Arab world in condemning reported Israeli attack on weapons convoy or research site

 

Iran threatened that a reported Israeli strike in Syria would have “grave consequences for Tel Aviv” on Thursday, days after saying that an attack on Syria would be seen as an attack on Iran.

 

Syria added that the attacks “would not go unanswered.”

 

On Wednesday, Damascus said Israeli planes struck a “research facility” northwest of the Syrian capital. The accusation came after reports from foreign news sources earlier in the day saying Israel hit a weapons convoy near the Syria-Lebanon border that was transferring arms to the terror group Hezbollah.

 

“The Israeli regime’s strike on Syria will have serious consequences for Tel Aviv,” one of Tehran’s deputy foreign ministers was quoted by the semi-official PressTV network as saying.

 

Iran is a major backer of both Syrian President Bashar Assad and Lebanon-based Hezbollah.

 

Iran’s Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi condemned the airstrike on state television, calling it a clear violation of Syria’s sovereignty. His statement echoed similar condemnations from Russia, the Arab League and Hezbollah.

 

Last week, Iran warned the West against intervening in the ongoing civil war in Syria, with top adviser Ali Akbar Velayati saying that “an attack on Syria is considered an attack on Iran and Iran’s allies.”

 

Syrian officials also said they would not stay quiet after the attack.

 

“All options for a response against Israeli aggression are open,” an official close to the Assad regime said, according to Syrian press reports. “The Zionists are trying to use the situations in Syria to restart the crisis when the government was managing to work toward a diplomatic solution.”

 

The Syrian ambassador to Lebanon Ali Abdel Karim said Israel, the Americans and the Arab regimes who took their side “know Syria will defend its sovereignty and land.”

 

Damascus “is capable of executing a surprise response to the attack on the science research center in Jamariah,” Karim told reporters in Beirut.

 

The site targeted by Israel was the target of multiple attacks by those objecting Assad’s rule over the past two years, Karim added.

 

On Thursday Syria summoned the commander of UN forces in the Golan Heigts and delivered to him a formal protest against the attack which it says violates the 1974 disengagement agreement.

 

The Jamraya research center is in the town of Jamraya, 20 kilometers east of the Lebanese border, surrounded by army bases.

 

Diplomats in the Middle East familiar with Jamraya told Reuters that it a crucial element of Syria’s missile program, and that it is also home to a chemical weapons facility.

 

People who visited Jamraya recently told reporters it is surrounded by high walls and guarded by plain-clothed agents.

 

Asked about rebel attacks in the area, they said there had been some attempts to target the tanks with mortars but were not aware of any rebel activity in the last few days.

 

Israel has declined to comment on the reports of the strikes. Officials have said in the past that it would act to keep chemical weapons or other arms from being transfered to Hezbollah.

 

Vice Prime Minister Silvan Shalom said Sunday that any transfer of arms to Hezbollah “would be crossing a line that would demand a different approach.”

 

Maj. Gen. Abdul-Aziz Jassem al-Shallal, who became in December one of the most senior Syrian army officers to defect, told The Associated Press by telephone from Turkey that the targeted site near Damascus is a “major and well-known” center of weapons development known as the Scientific Research Center.

 

Al-Shallal, who until his defection was the commander of the Military Police, said no chemical or unconventional weapons were at the site. He added that foreign experts, including Russians and Iranians, are usually at such centers.

 

On Wednesday, reports surfaced that Israel’s air force carried out a number of sorties around the Lebanese-Syrian border on Tuesday and Wednesday. The target was reportedly a convoy carrying advanced weaponry to Hezbollah.

 

Regional security officials said Wednesday the shipment included sophisticated Russian-made SA-17 anti-aircraft missiles, which if acquired by Hezbollah would enable the militants to shoot down Israeli jets, helicopters and surveillance drones. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to brief the media.

 

A Western official told The Wall Street Journal that the two reports may not be mutually exclusive.

Russia, Syria’s strongest international ally, said Moscow is taking “urgent measures to clarify the situation in all its details.”

 

“If this information is confirmed, we have a case of unprovoked attacks on targets in the territory of a sovereign state, which grossly violates the U.N. Charter and is unacceptable,” Russia’s foreign ministry said in a statement. “Whatever the motives, this is not justified.”

 

Earlier Thursday, Hezbollah condemned the attack, claiming that it was intended to stunt “Arab and Islamic technological development.”

 

“In line with its inherent spirit of aggression and criminality, and in accordance with its policy of preventing any Arab or Islamic power from developing technological and military capabilities, Israel perpetrated a barbaric attack against a Syrian installation for scientific research on Syrian territory, causing the death of a number of Syrians, the injury of others, and the destruction of the installation,” the statement read.

 

Lebanon and the Arab League slammed Israel for the attacks, calling them a violation of the countries’ sovereignty.

 

Jerusalem has long feared that Syrian chemical weapons could be turned against Israel.

 

Earlier this week, Israel moved a battery of its new Iron Dome rocket defense system to the northern city of Haifa, which was battered by Hezbollah rocket fire in the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah war. The Israeli army called that move “routine.”

 

Israel Military Intelligence Chief Aviv Kochavi is in Washington for consultations at the Pentagon, including meetings with Joint Chiefs of Staff head Martin Dempsey.

 

US officials told The New York Times on Wednesday that Israel notified the United States about the reported airstrike.

 

MK Tzachi Hanegbi, who is close to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, stopped short of confirming Israel’s involvement in the strike.

 

Hanegbi hinted, however, that Israel could carry out similar missions in the future. He said pinpoint strikes were not enough to counter the threat of Hezbollah obtaining sophisticated weaponry from Syria.

 

“Israel’s preference would be if a Western entity would control these weapons systems,” Hanegbi said. “But because it appears the world is not prepared to do what was done in Libya or other places, then Israel finds itself like it has many times in the past facing a dilemma that only it knows how to respond to,” he added.

 

He was referring to NATO’s 2011 military intervention in Libya that helped oust dictator Muammar Gaddafi.

 

“Even if there are reports about pinpoint operations, the

se are not significant solutions to the threat itself because we are talking about very substantial capabilities that could reach Hezbollah,” he added.

 



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