Directions via Devil’s Euphrates Seat Activates Sorrows!
‘Arab Spring’ has brought Many Middle East Mini-Wars.
‘Arab Spring’ has NOT Brought FORTH Human Rights,
But It HAS Brought a Sorrow of Increasing Famine,
And is likely to bring forth war twixt 2013 & 2015
Which Begins with the first Quake in Revelation
TO END AT Armageddon 3 And ½ Years Later!
See Two Excerpts From The Jerusalem Post!
September 2, 2011
http://www.tribulationperiod.com/
THE SORROWS OF THE FIRST FOUR SEALS
Matthew 24:7,8 – For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines,
and pestilences,
and earthquakes, in divers places. [8] All these are the beginning of sorrows.
THE FAMINE OF THE THIRD SEAL
Revelation 6:5,6 – 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.
BEGINNING OF THE LAST 3 & ½ YEARS OF THE TRIBULATION PERIOD
Revelation 6:12 – And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood;
THE END OF THE TRIBULATION PERIOD AT THE FINAL BATTLE
Revelation 16:10-16 – And the fifth angel poured out his vial upon the seat of the beast; and his kingdom was full of darkness; and they gnawed their tongues for pain, [11] And blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores, and repented not of their deeds. [12] And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; 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, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet. [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.
[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.
COMING OF THE LORD TO END TO END ARMAGEDDON AT 2ND ADVENT
Revelation 17:12-14 – And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast. [13] These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast. [14] These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful.
Begin Excerpt 1 from THE JERUSALEM POST
Arab Spring fails yet to deliver on human rights
By DAVID ROSENBERG
THE MEDIA LINE
09/01/2011 18:12
Arbitrary arrests, torture are growing in the Middle East as despots more often than not ignore promises to end the worst abuses.
Arbitrary arrests, torture and other human rights violations are growing in the Arab Spring Middle East as despots more often than not ignore promises to end the worst abuses while new governments resort to their predecessors’ methods to restore order, human rights experts say.
The latest indication of ballooning violations came in a report released by Amnesty International on Tuesday, which asserted that at least 88 people died in custody in Syria in the four-and-a-half months to August 15. Even as President Bashar Assad ended the emergency law in April that had effectively made such abuses legal, the number of deaths was “many times higher than the yearly average,” the London-based organization said.
“The method of torture and ways in which people are being arrested and detained fits into a broader pattern that goes way back, but the scale has grown,” Philip Luther, Amnesty’s deputy director of the Middle East and North Africa, told The Media Line.
“There may well be more … We have been receiving new reports.”
Across the Middle East people have poured into the streets to demand reforms or bring down governments that count among the world’s human rights violators. But even as three of the region’s leaders have fallen and those still in power face closer scrutiny than ever, the Arab Spring has done little to end arbitrary arrests, torture and abuse, and censorship.
Assad, who in his 11 years of rule has been cited as a serial human rights violator, has promised to end some of his regimes most onerous laws and practices as he struggles to put down a rebellion now marking its sixth month. But Amnesty and other human rights groups said there was little evidence anything has changed.
Amnesty couldn’t conduct field research (it said the last time the government permitted it to visit the country was 14 months ago). But based on videos and photographic evidence examined by experts, it maintained that at least 52 of the 88 showed evidence they experienced torture. Some of the dead, including minors as young as 13, were also mutilated “in particularly grotesque ways” apparently to scare the families to whom the corpses were returned.
All told, more than 2,200 people have been killed since the Syrian government’s crackdown on protesters began in March, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) said last week. And the pace of killings may be rising, with 350 deaths reported since the beginning of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan August 2.
Meanwhile in Bahrain, the OHCHR said the situation remains “tense and unpredictable” months after the island emirate put an end to anti-government protests and King Hamad bin Isa Al-Khalifa has promised national dialogue. Opposition activities are still being repressed and hundreds of cases involving civilian demonstrators are being conducted in what amount to military courts, the OHCHR said.
After anti-government protests were put down in Bahrain with the help of Saudi security forces in March, King Hamad signaled he was ready to ease up the crackdown, marking the end of Ramadan this week by pardoning an unknown number of political prisoners and calling for the reinstatement of some workers fired for their political activity.
At least 500 people have been detained in Bahrain since the protests began in February, according to Amnesty International. Four have died in custody under “suspicious circumstances” and more than 2,500 people have been dismissed or suspended from work. Among them were teachers, who were arrested, tortured or otherwise ill-treated in detention for joining the protests.
“We are concerned that most of the defendants in these cases may be prisoners of conscience, detained only for exercising their rights to freedom of expression and association,” Rupert Colville, spokesman for the OHCHR said on Tuesday.
The region’s new leaders, who have inherited control from dictators like Egypt’s Husni Mubarak and Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi have had a mixed record since they took power.
“It’s too soon to say.
We have to refrain from overall assessment in Libya where there’s still a war going on. In a place like Egypt you have transitional situation where it’s under military rule,” said Sarah Leah Whitson, executive director of Human Rights Watch’s Middle East and North Africa division. “These are not democrats, these are not revolutionaries. They run a military shop.”
She told The Media Line
she expected real change to come in Egypt, which has been under the rule of an interim military government since Mubarak was ousted last February, when an elected government comes to power early next year.
Meanwhile, human rights activists have gathered considerable evidence that the army continues to torture prisoners, a group of 36 Egyptian non-governmental organizations (NGOs) said in an August 26 statement.
Bloggers and others who criticize the army have been arrested and more civilians than ever are being tried in military courts.
“Torture continues to be carried out in detention facilities run by the military police and has even reached unprecedented levels, as female political activists face sexual assault by being subjected to forcible virginity tests,” the 36 NGOs “Excessive force has also been used on several occasions to disperse sit-ins by political groups and the families of martyrs of the January 25 Revolution.”
Cairo’s Hisham Mubarak Law Centre estimates that over 12,000 Egyptians have been sentenced in military courts in the last six months, compared with fewer than 2,000 civilians in the 30 years Mubarak ruled.
Whitson, however, said she saw a bright spot in two of the region’s kingdoms – Jordan and Morocco. Both countries rulers have shunned violence as much as possible and have taken serious measures to reform and democratize politics, even if they have stopped short of surrendering their ruling powers.
“They do care and they do know their international credibility and international legitimacy isn’t very high and is getting more attention than ever before because of the Arab Spring,” she told The Media Line. “These governments have made a strategic choice.”
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As Arab Spring roils, hunger emerges
By DAVID E.
MILLER
THE MEDIA LINE
07/10/2011 12:05
Military violence compounds preexisting economic factors, leaving millions hungry in Syria, Libya and nearly one third of Yemeni population..
The Arab Spring was supposed to bring democracy, peace and prosperity. But stalemates between governments and opposition forces are paralyzing economic life, exacerbating food shortages that were already in the making due to unfavorable weather and rising world prices.
Reports of widespread hunger have emerged in recent weeks in Libya and Syria. On Wednesday, Yemen was officially added to the list of food trouble spots when a United Nation mission visiting Yemen called on the international community to quickly provide humanitarian aid to the impoverished country, pushed to the verge of starvation by five months of protests and armed insurrection.
“Before the unrest began, seven million Yemenis were forced to reduce their number of daily meals from three to one,” Aziz Al-Athwari, Yemen country director at Oxfam, a British aid agency, told The Media Line.
“Although we have no current statistics, that number has certainly increased since fighting began.”
Seven million is equal to nearly a third of Yemen’s population. The UN’s World Food Program (WFP) recently launched an emergency operation to feed 1.7 million severely food insecure Yemenis. The poorest country in the Middle East, Yemen has been rocked by deadly protests since late January demanding President Ali Abdullah Saleh’s ouster.
All three Middle East countries suffered from food and water shortfalls even before unrest broke out, preventing inputs like seeds and fertilizer reaching farmers and severing transportation links to markets. But with fighting in Libya and Yemen nearly reaching their fifth month and unrest in Syria nearing its fourth, economic paralysis has become the norm.
And as the fighting goes on, world food prices are rising.
In June they reached a near record led by sharp increase in sugar prices outweighed a slump in the grains complex, the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said on Thursday.
The FAO’s food price index, which covers prices of a basket of commodities, rose 1% to 234 points last month, up 39% compared with the same time last year and just below the record 238 points hit in February.
Food prices are likely to stay at historically-high—and volatile—levels well into 2012, the FAO said.
Al-Athwari traces the growing hunger in Yemen to mounting fuel and diesel costs. Not only food but water is delivered to many communities by truck, and rising transport prices have lifted the price of food and water beyond the ability of the average Yemeni to pay. As a result, he said, Yemenis have reduces their water consumption, causing public health and sanitation conditions to deteriorate.
“Fifteen-hundred liters of water used to cost $5, but now cost $20,” Al-Athwari added. “Many day laborers have lost their jobs and can no longer afford this.”
In Libya, the fighting between government and opposition forces has severely harmed the supply of food and medication, particularly to the Western Mountain Region which is entirely dependant on outside supplies, said Reem Nada, a Cairo-based public information officer for the World Food Program. Libya is almost entirely dependent on food imports but the country’s ports have been shuttered for months.
“The World Food Program is concerned with the collapse of the public distribution system, affected by the situation in Libya,” Nada told The Media Line. “Due to heavy fighting in Libya’s Western Mountain Region, markets are closed and there is lack of cash and fuel. Some areas have no electricity or water.”
Her organization has distributed 6,000 tons of food to Libya since March and has designated 22,000 additional tons for Libyans and refugees who have fled to neighboring Tunisia and Egypt. According to the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), over one million refugees have so far fled Libya as a result of the fighting.
Syrians too have suffered hunger due to a drought that has plagued the country’s northeast since 2006, described by the WFP as “the worst in decades.” Mass migration from Syria’s rural agricultural areas into cities has ensued. Some one million Iraqi refugees living in Syria are the most vulnerable to food shortage, as they are not allowed to work or own land to sustain themselves.
For Syrians struggling with less food in the markets, the problem was made worse by cuts in food subsidies and frozen wages after 2004. In the weeks before unrest broke out in mid-March, the Syrian President Bashar Assad government restored some of those subsidies and raised salaries for civil servants. But with the economy paralyzed, it’s not clear the government can afford to increase aid or distribute it.
The fighting, however, has been a major cause of hunger in Syria. In mid-June, government forces loyal to Assad blocked food from reaching Syrian villages near the border with Turkey, where thousands of internally displaced refugees had gathered fleeing government violence.
This is a starvation war they’re waging,” Jameel Saib, a local eyewitness, told CNN, adding that refugees were forced to pluck fruit from trees in order to survive.
Ali Al-Saffar, a Middle East researcher at the Economist Intelligence Unit, a London-based researcher affiliated with The Economist magazine, said food scarcity and high inflation were one of the root causes of Arab uprisings.
“Rising prices of food and fuel played out to disenchantment,” Al-Saffar told The Media Line. He added, however, that the acute food shortage was not a structural problem in the Middle East but rather the result of military conflict, meaning the situation is reversible.
“No one is expecting this food insecurity to go on forever,” he said.
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