Tammie, YES exactly! and that's the one thing we can always do no matter where we are! so thankful for the privilege of prayer! Well what do you know ... we now have (Drum roll, please) ... Assad reaching out feelers because he feels left out of the “peace” that is swarming in the region ... :popcorn :popcorn :popcorn :popcorn “Reaching out feelers” reminded me of the Neil Diamond’s Sweet Caroline hit song :mdrmdr: Where it began, I can't begin to knowing Syrian President Bashar Assad, evidently disinclined to be left out in the cold by the Arab world’s pursuit of peace with Israel, has put out his own feelers, according to the influential Saudi Sharq al-Awsat of Sunday, Sept. 27. He is considering climbing on the bandwagon driven by the Trump administration, whose peace diplomacy brought about United Arab Emirates and Bahrain normalization deals with the Jewish state. More Arab governments, including Sudan, are heading in the same direction. Latterly, as DEBKAfile reported this week, Lebanon and Israel have also been led to the table to discuss their longstanding maritime and land border disputes. The Sharq al-Awsat’s senior commentator Omar Hamidi noted that Syria’s Bashar al Assad, like his predecessor and father Hafez al-Assad, has more than once, when finding themselves in difficult quandaries, turned to seeking an accommodation with Jerusalem as the gateway to Washington. Today, trouble is crowding in on his regime from all directions: the Syrian economy is drowning fast, the generals and business leaders in his circle are at each other’s throats, his battlefronts are at a standstill, with chaos on the Syrian Golan; the Turkish army is entrenched in the north and the Kurds in the northeast are unifying for self-rule under US military protection. While the Syrian ruler would seek joint Russian-American patronage for a new negotiating track with Israel, he is not clear on how his leading protector, Iran, will respond to the move. He has therefore not yet decided to jump in and is still turning the option over in his mind. The Trump administration’s recognition of Israel sovereignty over a part of the Golan could be an obstacle. However, Putin, if he decides to join the move, may be asked to conjure up a creative formula that falls between security control and full sovereignty to resolve the issue. Some Israel security circles favor a deal with Syria as it holds some prospect for breaking up Assad’s alliance with Tehran, which was recently solidified by a formal defense cooperation accord. Once clinched, this deal may eventually persuade Damascus to get rid of the regime’s Iranian “advisers” and expel the IRGC-backed Shiite militias from the country. The omens for the coming Jewish year are therefore positive. In 2020, Yom Kippur, the most solemn day of prayer and fasting on the Jewish calendar, is the harbinger of an unparalleled era of Middle East peace for the Jewish state – in stark contrast to the perils and deaths of Israel’s most perilous and deadly conflict with the Arab world that marked Yom Kippur 1973. - Fair Use - in the millennium, Syria will have a brighter future along with Israel and Egypt Isaiah 19: 23 In that day there will be a highway from Egypt to Assyria, and Assyria will come into Egypt, and Egypt into Assyria, and the Egyptians will worship with the Assyrians. 24 In that day Israel will be the third with Egypt and Assyria, a blessing in the midst of the earth, 25 whom the Lord of hosts has blessed, saying, “Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel my inheritance.” To be honest, I know Assad is ruthless but he has protected Christians in Syria. He is not a psychopath like Erdogan in Turkey, nor like the regime in Iran. Syria reaching a deal may pave the way for a joint Turkish, Iranian, Libyan, etc. invasion of Israel. Thanks for story. I am intrigued to say the least. Evil Erdogan stirring up trouble again, it would seem. His close ally Azerbaijan has effectively declared war on Armenia. Please pray for Armenia as they are nearly surrounded by Islamic nations. Soon and very soon, the evil Erdogan will meet his end in the War of Gog and Magog. maybe thats why israel will be surprised at an attack from the north. not believing the bible. believing an agreement is in place More information on the conflict: Things are getting very serious, very quickly. Heavenly Father please de-escalate this conflict and protect the innocent on both sides. :prayer-hands: Warning ... just a heads up caution (republicworld.com) is not secured. As I was trying to read the article a pop-up screen appeared saying congratulations I won a prize with Verizon to claim my gift press this button yada yada yada ... so I ignored the hackers request and shut down my iPad completely and cleared out all cookies and re-signed in again. I’m still in the dark as to why Turkey wants Armenia? Do they have oil/gas fields? Speaking about hacking ... check out what happen to the coffee machine ... hooooooow .... tragic! B-) K Sera, Sera, Whatever will be, will be ... its best to drink lovely tea, yes tea ... :whistle: Coffee Machine Hit By Ransomware Attack—Yes, You Read That Right Forbes My office is full of gadgets and gizmos, as you might expect of a technology journalist. Among them, one stands proud of all others when it comes to my productivity: the coffee machine. Perhaps that is why I have opted for an old-fashioned, dumb, and disconnected device to brew my morning expresso. As security researchers from Avast discovered, smart coffee machines can not only be hacked but can be hacked with ransomware. In a September 25 blog posting, Martin Hron, a senior researcher with security vendor Avast, described how he set about discovering if he could hack a smart coffee machine without first compromising either the network it was connected to or the router itself. The short answer is yes, yes he could. And how. Upon switching on the coffee machine in question, the researcher discovered that it acted as a Wi-Fi access point, establishing an unencrypted, unsecured connection to a companion app. This enabled him to start investigating the firmware update mechanism employed. Unsurprisingly, perhaps, the updates were also unencrypted, without any authentication or code-signing involved. Hron did what any good hacker would do and proceeded to reverse-engineer the firmware stored within the Android app. Initially, Hron was looking to turn the device into a cryptocurrency mining machine rather than one that churned out coffee. It was possible, he discovered but would be rather pointless given the speed of the CPU. Having spent some time on the problem, Hron managed to produce a working ransomware attack that was both persistent and hard to ignore. The trigger for the attack was the command that connects the machine to the network, and the payload some malicious code that "renders the coffee maker unusable and asks for a ransom." But Hron didn't stop there; he also got that triggered code to permanently turn on the hotbed and water heater as well as the coffee grinder. The only way to silence the now manic machine being to pay the supposed ransom or, of course, pull the plug from the mains. Plug it back in, however, and the onslaught continues anew. OK, so the chances of any malicious hacker discovering that you had an internet-connected coffee machine of the right make and with the relevant vulnerabilities is, to say the least, pretty slim. The chances of that hacker then deciding it would be worth the time and risk as this would still be a cyber-attack, for potentially little reward even slimmer. I mean, how much would you pay to get your coffee machine back? Certainly no more than the cost of just replacing it, and that's hardly prohibitive in the overall scheme of things. As noted by Ars Technica, more concerning would be a reversal of this hack with the coffee machine being programmed to attack the router or other network-connected devices. Something, Hron said, could likely be achievable with more work. The smart coffee machine used was an older generation, no longer supported, model according to Hron. I have reached out to the vendor for a statement and will update this article in due course. - Fair Use - Hmmm... I never got that warning. Sorry about that. 🙁 Turkey and Azerbaijan are closely related culturally and linguistically. They have spoken in the past of a union of nations. Armenia basically stands in the way of that, geographically. Well, Armenia and Georgia, both Christian nations. Turkey has around 90 million people. Azerbaijan has about 10 million. Both authoritarian countries. Armenia, a democracy.... about 3 million. Armenia does not have any oil and gas, as far as I know. A rather poor country economically as they are blockaged by a hostile Azerbaijan and Turkey. There has long been tensions since the Turkish people invaded about 1,000 years ago. It's quite complicated, really. :wacko:
But then I know it's growing strong
Was in the spring
And spring became the summer
Who'd have believed you'd come along
Hands, touching hands
Reaching out, touching me, touching you
Sweet Caroline
Good times never seemed so good
I've been inclined
To believe they never would
But now I
Davey Winder
9/27/20
