Finland may be moving quickly to require microchip implants for some of their citizens under the guise that money will not flow to Islamic State Muslims. A Finnish Party politician says welfare recipients should have identification microchips implanted so that the money cannot go to terrorists. “We don’t know in what situations people go abroad. It is possible that our social benefits are used to provide for a lavish lifestyle in a country with lower cost of living. I hope for a change to this,”Pasi Mäenranta of the nationalist Finns party wrote on his Facebook page. When pressed, Pasi Mäenranta added that implantation would be voluntary, but that payments should be suspended to those opting out of it. The chip would also help identify missing persons, he added. Mäenranta later commented for YLE broadcaster that an electronic bracelet could serve the same purpose and that he didn’t see such move as compromising privacy. “We are already being tracked through our mobile phones, Google and Facebook posts. I don’t think microchipping would be such a serious issue,” he said. Credit to Skywatchtv
“Also on the tenth day of this seventh month there shall be a day of atonement: it shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall afflict your souls, and offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord… For whatsoever soul it be that shall not be afflicted in that same day, he shall be cut off from among his people. And whatsoever soul it be that doeth any work in that same day, the same soul will I destroy from among his people.”(Leviticus 23:26-29)
You don’t need prophetic vision to know that the world is on the verge of a new period heralding in global changes unlike any ever seen before. The signs are obvious and the pieces are all in place. With the Jewish holiday’s fast approaching, God’s plan for change and redemption is unfolding before our very eyes with grave implications for the nation of Israel.
The Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashana, will begin on the evening of September 13 and end after sunset on September 15. According to Jewish tradition, Rosh Hashana is the day that God begins the process of judging the entire world.
This year’s Rosh Hashana is especially unique in that it will signal the end of the Shemittah year, the Sabbatical year which occurs in a seven year cycle. According to the Talmud, the written text explaining the oral Torah, the Messiah will come in the year following the Shemittah year.
As the second and final day of the holiday of Rosh Hashana ends on September 15, the 70th United Nations General Assembly will commence. The issue of the creation of a Palestinian state is expected to be decided by world representatives during the General Assembly. While not having yet happened, the upcoming session is already fraught with tension as it is unclear whether the US will continue to use its veto to prevent the Palestinians from unilaterally declaring a state.
Conflict over the Holy Land is prophesied to be part of the process of redemption. In Zechariah 12:6, the end times are described: “On that day I will make the clans of Judah like a flame that sets a woodpile ablaze or like a burning torch among sheaves of grain. They will burn up all the neighboring nations right and left, while the people living in Jerusalem remain secure.” In Amos 9:15, we are told that once the Jews are re-established in their land, “they will not again be rooted out from their land.”
After the Jewish holiday of Rosh Hashana is an interim period referred to as the Ten Days of Awe. It is during this period, on September 17, that the US Congress will vote on whether to reject or accept the nuclear deal negotiated by US President Barack Obama with Iran over their nuclear program.
Religious leaders have characterized the Iran deal as a cataclysmic and fiery conflict as part of the apocalyptic war of Gog and Magog. In Ezekiel, chapters 38 and 39, this was is described as involving several nations, none of whom border Israel. However Persia (Iran) is specifically mentioned as a main actor of the war.
It should be remembered that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave his fateful address to Congress protesting the Iranian deal on March 3, the day before the Jewish holiday of Purim. Purim celebrates the Jewish victory over Haman, an officer in the Persian court, known today as Iran. Jewish holidays indeed play a significant role in the process of heavenly warning to the nations.
Pope Francis praying at the Western Wall in Jerusalem. (Photo: @MickyRosenfeld/ Twitter)
Concluding the Days of Awe is the holiday of Yom Kippur, known as the Day of Atonement on which God seals his judgments. Yom Kippur is the holiest day of the year and falls on September 23. Oddly enough, September 23, Yom Kippur, is the day on which Obama has chosen to host Pope Francis at the White House on his first visit to the United States. Pope Francis, in his role as leader of the Catholic world, has chosen to involve himself in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, recently recognizing the “State of Palestine.”
The weeklong Jewish Holiday of Sukkot, the Feast of Tabernacles, begins September 28, also the date for the last of the four blood moons in a special tetrad cycle. Previous lunar tetrad cycles have coincided with important historical events that impacted the nation and State of Israel. For example, four blood moons followed the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948. In 1967, before the Six Day War in which a divided Jerusalem was liberated and united by Israel, there was one blood moon with three following.
The upcoming blood moon will be clearly visible from Jerusalem and a similar pattern of eclipses happened just before and just after the destruction of the Jewish Temple by the Romans in 70 AD.
Credit to breakingisraelnews.com Read more at http://www.breakingisraelnews.com/47435/upcoming-jewish-world-holidays-ushering-in-period-cataclysmic-events/#vpq2OQrL36hCEs1f.99
Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Khamenei, the Supreme Leader of Iran, gave a speech on Aug. 17 in which he said that the United States of America was the “enemy” and that Iran would confront the United States with all its power.
"We will not allow the Americans to have economic or political influence in our country, nor will we allow them to have a political presence and cultural influence in our country," said the ayatollah. "We will confront them with all our power which is thankfully great in the present time.
In the same speech, which has been posted in English on the ayatollah’s official website, the ayatollah said that “it is not clear” whether the agreement designed to forestall Iran’s development of nuclear weapons will in fact be approve by either the United States or Iran.
“First, I will tell you that when we say, ‘the enemy’ we do not refer to an imaginary and fictional creature. By ‘enemy’ we mean global arrogance and arrogant powers: powers whose existence depends on dominating others, interfering in their affairs and possessing their financial and vital resources. These are arrogant powers or in other words, the leaders of global arrogance….
“If we want to give an example of who this enemy is in the outside world, we should refer to the regime of the United States of America. This regime is the epitome of global arrogance. Of course, others are part of global arrogance as well, but the clearest and the most obvious example is the regime of the United States of America. It knows nothing about human morality and it is not ashamed of committing any crime--of any nature. It covers these crimes, pressures and violent acts behind its smiles and its good and beautiful words. The manifestation of global arrogance is this regime. Therefore, when we say, "the enemy", it means this.
“This enemy's plan in the region is mainly based on two things. Of course, it has many branches, but these are the main two. One is creating discord and the second it exerting influence. …
“Of course, the English were the first experts of this measure. They have expertise in creating religious discord. The Americans have learned this from them and they are working on it today with all their power. …
“Today in the region, America does not enjoy the reputation that it did in the past and therefore, it wants to retrieve it. They have the same intention in our country. They have the same intention in Iran. They thought that they could use the nuclear negotiations to exert influence inside our country. Now, the fate of this nuclear agreement is not clear either in Iran or in America. It is not clear whether it will be approved or not in both countries. They wanted to use it as a means to exert influence in our country, but we blocked their path and we will definitely block their path in the future as well [audience chant "Allahu Akbar"].
"We will not allow the Americans to have economic or political influence in our country, nor will we allow them to have a political presence and cultural influence in our country. We will confront them with all our power which is thankfully great in the present time. The same is true of the region. In the region too, they want to exert influence, have an excuse to show their presence and pursue their goals. By Allah's favor and grace, we will do our best to prevent this. Our policies in the region are the exact opposite of the Americans.”
(NaturalNews) Amid a global financial system that remains in flux, oil prices tanked Friday as well, sending prices below $40 a barrel for the first time since the Global Recession was at its peak in 2009.
Prices touched a six-and-a-half year low of $39.86 a barrel for a brief period, rising above $40 to settle around just above that mark by early afternoon, according to Reuters and Bloomberg Business.
Bloomberg reported further:
Prices have tumbled almost 35 percent since this year's peak in June as producers maintain output even after an oversupply pushed prices into a bear market. U.S. benchmark West Texas Intermediate may drop to $32 on the persisting global surplus, Citigroup Inc. said in a report Aug. 19. Concerns that China's economic growth will reduce demand also weighed on futures.
"It's clear that the major producers, the Saudis, Russians, the U.S. and others, are battling for market share," John Kilduff, a partner at Again Capital LLC, a New York-based hedge fund, told Bloomberg by phone.
The fall in oil prices is due in large part to a growing glut as producers continue to maintain production in a bid to retain as much of the market as possible.
As noted by the U.S. Energy Information Administration, crude supplies in the U.S. rose 2.62 million barrels last week alone. That unexpected gain in the U.S. supply followed signs that OPEC members were actually planning to boost production.
Markets extending losses Meanwhile, a key Chinese manufacturing gauge plunged to its lowest level since the financial crisis, which only served to increase concerns that demand is likely to wane further still in the world's second-biggest consumer of oil.
"The [oil] market is stuck in a relentless downtrend," Robin Bieber, a director at London brokerage PVM Oil Associates told Reuters.
"The trend is down - stick with it."
Reuters further reported:
Energy markets slid early in the day as world stock and currency markets joined an extended rout across raw materials this week, a slump accelerated on Friday by data showing activity in China's factory sector shrank at its fastest pace in almost 6-1/2 years in August.
Oil's losses on Friday extend an eight-week trend, which has seen prices slide by 33 percent, the longest downward trend since 1986.
Not every analyst is bearish.
"Eventually, supply and demand will come into balance, but it will take a while," Chip Hodge, who oversees a $9 billion natural-resource bond portfolio as senior managing director at John Hancock in Boston, told Bloomberg Business.
Markets in the U.S., Europe and China continue to undergo declines following another incident that has thus far not been widely reported (see it here and a follow-up here) but which was first exclusively reported by Natural News editor Mike Adams, the Health Ranger: An alleged U.S. attack on Tianjin, China, perhaps in response to Beijing's surprise currency devaluation and China's continuing cyber hacks targeting American military and government personnel.
Make sure to visit Collapse.news for more breaking news on the current economic collapse as it unfolds.
'Systemic risk' In early June, Natural News editor Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, described in an articlea "systemic market crash" that would dwarf even the dot-com bust of 2001.
"Why? Because increased financial interdependency has created a dangerous 'hidden monster' in global debt instruments: SYSTEMIC RISK," he wrote.
"Systemic risk is invisible. It's not apparent in each individual financial instrument, stock trade or derivatives wager. Systemic risk comes into spontaneous existence from the interconnectedness of the systems that run our global financial markets, from computer-driven stock trades to bank computers that compute fractional reserve requirements," he continued.
"When the next great crash comes -- which could happen as early as the Fall of 2015 -- it will multiply and accelerate precisely because of these little-understood systemic risks which underlie almost every financial instrument, currency position and banking institution on the planet," Adams said.
Adams also mini-documentary explaining the risks of systemic collapse, which you can view in its entirety here:
