IN the NEWS - It Ain't Done Yet......

For nation shall rise against nation,

and kingdom against kingdom:

and there shall be famines,

and pestilences,

and earthquakes,

in divers places.

All these are the beginning of sorrows.

And ye shall hear of wars and rumors of wars:

And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, ...and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.

Matthew 24:7,8,6/Luke 21:11

The many natural disasters of the more than 3 weeks now have

shown no signs of letting up.....by themselves they would be the few isolated natural disasters every year around the globe. 

But the last 3 weeks or so has been non stop---the amount on a scale for a short time that I've never seen before....especially in China. About the only thing that hasn't hit China recently is a solar flare burst taking out swaths of the power grid or an asteroid hitting a city.....could that be some of the "fearful sights .... shall there be from heaven"?

China: Multiple more floods as well as a typhoon, snow in the

Birds Dropping from Heatstroke in China

summer, hail, those wildfires still burning as well as a record heatwave where the temps on the pavement have reached 170 degrees. Also the capital of Beijing has now been flooded with houses, cars and people washed away.

Nepal: The floods from China have slammed into Nepal washing away the bridge that connects the two nations. The military has been deployed for rescue operations.

Thailand: More massive flooding washing away the crops.

India: More massive floods.

Pakistan: Massive floods.

New Zealand: Moderate floods.

El Salvador: A phreatic eruption.

Taiwan: Typhoon and flooding.

Japan: Now up to over 1700 small quakes in the last 2 weeks along a line on the east half of the country which has shifted the crust a few inches. Tokyo now Flooded.

Guatemala: Earthquake.

Italy: More mudslides, hail, rain/flooding in the north. Down in the south in Naples the roads splitting apart with a sulfur smell filling the air.

Mexico: Massive hail storms.

Russia: Severe storms and flood damage to St. Petersburg.

Columbia: Earthquake.

Spain: Massive flooding and hail.

Serbia: Massive winds blowing over vehicles including semis.

Bosnia: Wind storms as in Serbia on the same scale.

U.S.A.: Major floods in New Mexico, D.C., Oklahoma, Arkansas, Iowa, Illinois including Chicago and Massachusetts, especially in Boston.

Mt. Rainier in Washington State having multiple small quakes---most on record. Quakes also rattling California along with California wildfires. Flooding in the coastal Carolinas due to a tropical storm. Large hail pounded Colorado.

Canada: Military coup thwarted in Quebec.

Literal RUMORS of WAR: A "Rumor" was spread by the head of NATO that Russia and China are planning a surprise attack to start WW3 (of course likely a lie but who knows)?

*Click on Link to see Recent Post on Topic with more Links to what has been happening:  IN the NEWS - Another Week... What is up?

IN the NEWS - There's More..... (plus a sidenote)

For nation shall rise against nation,

and kingdom against kingdom:

and there shall be famines,

and pestilences,

and earthquakes,

in divers places.

All these are the beginning of sorrows.

Matthew 24:7,8

There's more to follow-up last weeks post.

*CHINA: According to news reports China may be now 50%

flooded under water! Besides last weeks flooding by the government in the west central impacting nearly 100,000,000 people (wiping out crops, farm animals and people), and the golf ball sized hail that pounded the north (killing farm animals and destroying crops) and in the south record rainfall flooding the region along with many landslides. Looting and riots in Guangdong.

Since then there has now been the biggest earthquake in a decade in China hitting the south along with a typhoon causing even more flooding. And now----the biggest wildfires on record in China

sweeping through land and cities causing the closing of businesses and schools due to smoke.....if it's not flooded it's burning....of course we can't forget their claim a few weeks ago of a resurgent COVID pandemic.....so the worry with all this destruction of farms and farm animals is that China could face a real Famine in the near future of the likes not seen since Mao's so-called "Great Leap Forward."....time will tell........

ELSEWHERE....

*Philippines: Several more quakes including on the Philippine Trench in the ocean as well as the capital of Manilla flooded.

*Indonesia: Volcanic eruption.

*India: Major flooding and landslides in the north.

*Columbia: Flash floods sweeping away people in their beds at night in Medellin along with a loud boom under ground and collapsing of mountain.

*France: Stunning rain and hail flooding Paris in 10 minutes along with a pounding by lightning. Also more rain/flooding into northeast France to Normandy. The southwest pounded by hail.

*Germany & Austria: Massive flooding from rain and hail in southern and western Germany and parts of Austria. Germany had serious floods also last year in 2024.

*Italy: Along with the more than 15,000 recorded small quakes in the south the last couple of months---now there is a "girgling" sound detected under Naples as well as Mt. Etna having a small eruption resulting in a "unknown substance" being spit out from beneath the earth.

*Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico: An earthquake in the Caribbean resulting in damage and death in Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic.

*Venezuela: Rains and Tidal Waves washing inland have flooded 3 western states holding 70% of the nations farmland. Also many landslides and most bridges out hampering rescue operations.

*Thailand: Massive Flooding from rains.

*U.S.A.: Hail pounded both of the Carolinas around Metro-Charlotte. Metro-Atlanta in Georgia sees serious flooding. Central New York State sees minor flooding (Some flooding in the U.S. is routine each year -- but considering the magnitude of global flooding over the last couple of weeks.....) Also major Flooding in Kentucky, West Virginia and Ohio including Dayton as well as Minneapolis, Minnesota. Hail in Florida.

Mt. St. Helens in Washington State is experiencing multiple tremors with a bulge forming near the edge of the top. The McDermitt Caldera on the Oregon-Nevada border is now heating up and rising. The heatwave gripping the Midwest is said to likely last ALL SUMMER with the only relief on days it rains. Multiple 7.0 quakes off the Aleutian Island chain of Alaska were in a cluster. That usually, but not always, precedes a major tidal wave quake at some point. This one, if were to happen there due to a bigger quake, could produce waves over 1,000 feet tall that won't stop until they reach Australia and New Zealand.

WEATHER is Getting CREEPY

See Link Below for what happened Last Week: 

Dig Deeper: IN the NEWS - Don't Panic: All these are only the BEGINNING of sorrows

“It will be declared that men are offending God by the violation of the Sunday-sabbath, that this sin has brought calamities which will not cease until Sunday observance shall be strictly enforced, and that those who present the claims of the fourth commandment, thus destroying reverence for Sunday, are troublers of the people, preventing their restoration to divine favor and temporal prosperity”. E.G.W.

OBSERVE Through the PRISM of PROPHECY

And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he

had two horns like a lamb, 

and he spake as a dragon. 

And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him,

 and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.
Revelation 13:11,12

SIDENOTE: As Trump restores America to super power status on the world stage to meet one day it's place in prophecy (by whoever is President when it comes) China, America's main rival to global leadership is being beat down.

But not only the overwhelming natural disasters pounding the nation but also it's embarrassment on the world stage over the Pakistan-

India War that lasted barely more than a weekend. Pakistan was unable to stop India at all, even from flattening it's main nuclear base. And nearly all of Pakistan's military equipment was stamped "made in China". Compare and contrast Trump's strike on Iran's nuclear sites. Imagine the message that sent to Putin and China.

And of course Trump's tariff war with China, which led to China crying uncle in a matter of weeks, nearly collapsed the Chinese economy.

IN OTHER WORDS---is anyone noticing that America's main opposition to global hegemony is slowly being reduced---militarily and economically by the U.S. President and physically by "mother nature" in a series of fast moving events?

IN the NEWS - FERAL CITIES? Luciferian spirit Rocks L.A. -- Like it Rocked France

....being filled with all unrighteousness,... wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil-mindedness.... Romans 1:29 NKJV

"These cities are filled with wickedness of every kind,—with strikes and murders and suicides. Satan is in them, controlling men in their work of destruction. Under his influence they kill for the sake of killing, and this they will do more and more..." E.G.W.

Left-wing activists in L.A. turn violent...same spirit that rocked France Rocks L.A.

"A Democrat Los Angeles City Council member urged anti-law enforcement protesters to “escalate” their tactics against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents as tensions regarding

immigration sweep the area.
The council member is identified as Eunisses Hernandez, whose bio on the California government website says she was born in Highland Park, is a “community organizer,”...Video footage shows Hernandez speaking to a large crowd on Saturday, stating, “They know how quickly we mobilize, that’s why they’re changing tactics. Because community defense works and our resistance has slowed them down before… and if they’re escalating their tactics then so are we. When they show up, we gotta show up even stronger.”

The Department of Homeland Security has deployed elite SWAT units to quell the ongoing insurrection in Los Angeles that erupted on Friday night.
After a second consecutive day of rioting and attacks on federal agents conducting immigration enforcement actions, Border Patrol Chief Michael W. Banks announced that a massive federal response was underway.
“Several arrests have already been made for assault on a federal agent. ANY attack on our agents or officers will not be tolerated,” Banks announced." 

Breitbart

"In Dax, in the French Basque Country, a 17-year-old teenager was stabbed to death during a riot. In Paris, an electric scooter driver was run over by a car during street celebrations.

Two dead, over 550 detained, over 700 fires and more than 260 vehicles set on fire is the toll of the "celebrations" of Paris Saint-Germain's victory in the Champions League. The initial jubilation gave way to riots and clashes with the police in the capital and various parts of France.....Another video showed police vehicles on the streets of Paris. Sharing the clip, Rahul wrote, "Cops making arrests, wild ones unfazed. Pure madness in the streets!"...He geo-tagged the location as Avenue George V. Sharing it, he wrote, “Felt like the opening scene of Purge...”
msn

"Britain, France and other western countries are dangerously close to collapsing into violent civil conflict characterized by “feral cities” where authorities can no longer maintain rule of law, a military expert has warned.
In a sobering essay in the latest issue of Military Strategy Magazine, David Betz, Professor of War in the Modern World in the Department of War Studies at King’s College London, argues governments across the west have “squandered their legitimacy”.

He warns they are “losing the ability to peacefully manage multicultural societies” that are “terminally fractured by ethnic identity politics” and increasingly gripped by riots, terrorism and unrest.
“The initial result is an accelerating descent of multiple major cities into marginally ‘feral’ status,” he wrote." 

news.com.au

"A 15 year-old-boy has been arrested after a Colombian senator running to be the country's next president was shot and "critically" injured at a campaign rally in Bogota, authorities have said.

Senator Miguel Uribe Turbay, 39, was targeted during the campaign event in a park in the Fontibon area of the Colombian capital.....He suffered two gunshot wounds when armed assailants shot him from behind and appeared to be bleeding from his head as he was helped by aides and people in the crowd, in a video posted on social media.
According to a medical report at the Santa Fe Foundation hospital, he was admitted there in a "critical condition" and is still undergoing a "neurosurgical and peripheral vascular procedure." 

SkyNews

IN the NEWS - Sunday inn Columbia

This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. 

2 Timothy 3:1

"A new federal law is discouraging Sunday labor by charging employers a 100% surcharge. The law, being called a labor reform measure, demands extra compensation for working on Sundays and public holidays. This “reform” is designed to punish business and recognize Sunday as a special day of rest, which aligns with the broader worldwide effort that seeks to make Sunday the official day off for workers.

On June 2, 2025, W-Radio in Colombia published the following about the “significant changes” being imposed on businesses that choose to remain open on Sundays—making it clear that companies will face mounting pressure unless they conform to the growing Sunday rest agenda.

• “Colombia’s labor reform introduces significant changes to compensation for work on Sundays and holidays. These changes seek to improve working conditions and guarantee fairer compensation

for workers who work on these days.”
• “Currently, the surcharge for working on Sundays and holidays is 75% of the regular hourly rate. With the new reform, this surcharge will gradually increase to 100%.”
• “Those responsible for the reform have stated that these changes represent a restoration of rights for Colombian workers, restoring benefits that had been cut under previous legislation. According to the minister, the reform seeks to advance fairer and more equitable labor standards.”
• “Employers must adjust their budgets and operational planning to comply with new legal provisions, which could lead to increased labor costs. It is essential that both parties be informed and prepared to adapt to these changes, ensuring regulatory compliance and promoting harmonious labor relations.”

Colombia’s new federal labor law leaves no room for ambiguity—it effectively mandates Sunday rest by imposing a crippling financial burden on businesses that choose to operate on that day. By requiring companies to pay 100% more in wages for Sunday work, the law forces a stark choice: either absorb unsustainable labor costs or shut down operations every Sunday." 

AdventMessenger

Floating Island of Monkeys

And with every living creature that is with you, of the fowl, of the cattle, and of every beast of the earth with you; from all that go out of the ark, to every beast of the earth. Genesis 9:10

".....there are numerous floating islands in bogs, wetlands, lakes, and

rivers. Most of these floating islands are created by mosses that reach out from the banks and then break off. Nonetheless, the example of lizards being swept off one Caribbean island by a hurricane to a nearby island on a vegetation mat is a trivial example. The rafting of mammals, with their high metabolic rate and resource requirements (and, for many mammals—large size), appears to be the most difficult problem for biogeography.

Mazza et al. list many variables that all must be satisfied for a successful colonization over water, but they can be grouped into three main considerations: 

(1) biological variables 

(2) characteristics of the vessel, and 

(3) physical variables.

Nonetheless, these variables do not exhaust the issues.

To colonize a faraway land, there must be enough interfertile animals on the rafts. Just considering the vessel, it must be able to provide enough food and fresh water, be capable of staying afloat until it reaches the new location, and be carried by the right currents.

There are numerous small floating islands on isolated water bodies

adjacent to the Magdalena River of northwest Columbia. The rafts are composed of aquatic plants, bound together and floating. As the floating islands grow, they can support large woody vegetation such as vertical trees. These floating islands typically are 30 m long, but some are greater than 100 m long. One floating island was observed to have trees up to 10 m tall and monkeys on the limbs.

Creation scientists have a much better option for explaining biogeography. First, the rafts of logs and vegetation are a result of a

violent global Flood, so they do not have to drift down a river to the sea, but would already be floating on the oceans. Based on the estimated amount of coal, it is likely that the pre-Flood biosphere had about 10 times the amount of carbon, which could translate into 10 times the number of plants and trees compared to the present earth.

Moreover, there was much more rain during the early- to mid-Ice Age, so that the need for fresh water on the log mats would not necessarily have been a problem.

The recent observation of ‘floating islands’ large enough to support trees and monkeys provides interesting support for the Biblical framework of animal dispersal after Noah’s Flood." 

CMI

Rock of Guatapé

For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth. Genesis 7:4

"The Rock of Guatapé, in Colombia, as it is also known, is

composed of granite. It was exposed when the surrounding landscape was eroded in the second ‘half’ of Noah’s Flood, as the continents uplifted, the ocean basins sank, and the floodwaters that initially covered the whole continent flowed across the area into the ocean.
From images on Google maps, Google Earth, and the internet, it can be seen that there are hills surrounding the rock that are of similar elevation to each other and to the rock. 

In other words, 

--there was a higher land surface that has been eroded out. 

--The original land surface would have been carved flat earlier during the Flood when the waters covered the whole area. 

--The large valleys that are eroded into that surface would have been eroded later in the Flood by the strong water currents flowing to the ocean in wide channels. 

The rock is part of a huge volume of granite, called a pluton, that formed in the first ‘half’ of the Flood. 

--Energy released by the movements in the earth’s crust melted rock and the molten magma squeezed up into the overlying sediments, forming enormous underground ‘pools’ there. 

--Then the magma cooled and crystallized as granite.
Geologists call these enormous movements in the earth’s crust “orogenies”. This article on Noah’s Flood the big picture explains these crustal convulsions and their relation to the formation of granites and other igneous rocks.

My preliminary surveillance of the web indicates that the Triassic

and Jurassic rocks in this region are comprised of marine sedimentary deposits, indicating the area was under water. This fits the interpretation that they were deposited as the waters of Noah’s Flood were rising and nearing their peak.
--After these sediments were deposited, in the period labelled the Cretaceous, movements in the earth’s crust pushed up the mountain ranges along the west coast of South America. 

In this area the range is called the Cordillera Occidental, or the Western Cordillera, which is part the Andes. It is described as being pushed up because of the Nazca and South American plates colliding, which is quite reasonable. 

--The movement of the plates would have been caused by the ocean basins beginning to sink and the continents beginning to lift up. Thus, the floodwaters began to drain. 

--This crustal movement generated the molten magma which created a belt of granitic rocks alongside the edges of the Cordillera Occidental, of which the the Rock of Guatapé is just one small outcrop, relative to the whole." 

BiblicalGeology

IN the NEWS - Sunday Sacredness Linked to Wrong Kind of Gospel Conversion

I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel: Galatians 1:6

"Vatican News reported that the Catholic leadership in Colombia has issued a call to the nation to get together on Sunday in order to experience an ecological conversion, to pray for rain, and to remember Pope Francis’ call to work and cultivate an integral ecology. 

Vatican News expressed the following:
• “The national prayer, organized by the Episcopal Conference, took place on Sunday, January 28, within the framework of the fire

outbreaks that the country has been going through in recent days, aggravated by high temperatures and drought.”
• “Concerned about the critical situation in Colombia due to the scarcity of water and the multiple forest fires that have occurred in recent days in different regions, the country’s bishops held a national prayer on Sunday, January 28, to ask God for the gift of The rain. Likewise, they sent a letter to the People of God, in which they demonstrate ‘the need to have greater environmental awareness, as well as to undertake forceful actions that help prevent this type of risk’.”
• “In the message, the prelates allude to the current climate situation, accentuated by the ‘El Niño’ phenomenon, and emphasize the imperative to ‘direct our gaze to the God of life, asking him to move our hearts so that we undertake concrete actions of ecological conversion, encouraged by the care and conservation that we must have of our common home and of the poorest, who are the main affected.” 

Roman Catholics were not the only churches observing this national day of prayer for rain on Sunday. According to the local news in Colombia, “all the communities of faith” would also be taking part in the Sunday ceremonies. La Guajira Hoy is a news agency in Riohacha, Colombia, and reported the following:

• “That is why this Sunday, all the parishes in La Guajira join in this

national prayer, as well as all the communities of faith, a prayer that they hope to replicate in the following days and thus united in common prayer. ‘May the Lord look upon us with mercy and grant us the water that falls from the sky and that also springs from the earth,’ said Wilmer Silva , priest of the San Isidro Labrador church in the Palomino district, Dibulla.” So on Sunday, all the churches gathered to pray to God for rain and for an ecological conversion." AdventMessenger

IN the NEWS - Sunday's special place in Columbian Law

And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it.... Genesis 2:3

 

"Colombia is one of the countries with the longest work weeks. The
average person works 48 hours per week. In 2023, a new law went into effect that aims to reduce the work week from 48 to 42 hours, ensuring that everyone has time off. The law requires “a mandatory rest day, which may coincide with Sunday.” The plan is as follows:

• From this year, Law 2101 of 2021 begins to apply, which aims to reduce the working day and gradually go from 48 hours to 42, in five or six days a week, depending on the agreement made by workers and employers.

• In accordance with article 3 of the aforementioned standard, the decrease in the ordinary working day may be implemented gradually by the employer, as follows:

• After two (2) years from the entry into force of the law, one (1) hour of the weekly working day will be reduced, leaving 47 weekly hours.

• Three (3) years after the entry into force of the law, another hour of the weekly working day will be reduced, leaving 46 weekly hours.

• As of the fourth year after the entry into force of the law, two (2) hours will be reduced each year, until reaching forty-two (42) hours per week, in accordance with the provisions of the articles.

• The regulations explain that when the 42-hour weekday is carried out through flexible daily work shifts, distributed over a maximum of six days a week, the worker must have “a mandatory rest day, which may coincide with Sunday“.

The phrase “may coincide with Sunday” appears in the language of Colombia’s new mandatory rest day law. Basically, this encourages employers to predetermine which day employees should be off. 

 

Here is a legal enactment that favors Sunday above all other days as the preferred day of rest. 

Once again, secular governments are doing the work of the church by attempting to shift people’s rest days from Saturday to Sunday. 

 

It’s only a matter of time before the law is amended or revised to say

that the “mandatory rest day will (not may) coincide with Sunday.” History has taught us that through state intervention, the Sabbath was changed from the seventh day of the week to the first.

Without a doubt, God commands that the seventh day be designated as the Sabbath (Exodus 20:8–11). 

 

Q: But why is it that on the first day of the week, without any divine authority, there is a uniform day of rest in every part of the world and in almost every church? 

A: The answer is obvious: it is the state that forces people to obey the dictates of apostate churches. 

---That’s what happened when Constantine issued the first Sunday law in 321 AD, declaring that all work should stop on Sunday. That is what made Sunday a universal day of rest and worship.

We are rapidly approaching another crisis as the world returns to Rome to adopt its new Sunday rest laws 2.0. 

Sunday is a religious institution, and its observance is an act of homage paid by Protestants and non-Christians to the authority of the Papacy. 

And if this one religious observance can be made legal, then any and all religious observances can be enforced by law."

AdventMessenger

IN the NEWS - Prince of Persia Inspired "Triangle of Death"

For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.

Proverbs 1:16 

"Fear reigns in northeastern Colombia on the border with Venezuela where the local population has been caught in the crossfire of rival warring groups of left-wing guerrillas. 

Since the start of the year, the National Liberation Army (EL), Colombia's last recognized guerrilla group, and dissidents of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) rebels that laid down arms and signed a 2016 peace deal with the government, have waged a merciless battle in Arauca.

"What is in play is territorial control of the department and multiple trafficking with neighboring Venezuela," on the other side of the Arauca river, a political scientist based in the region who spoke on condition of anonymity, told AFP.

Almost 50 people have been killed in the violence in less than four weeks.

Murders, kidnappings and threats have become a daily occurrence.

The conflict revolves around a "triangle of death" area alongside the Arauca river.

The Arauca region is as large as Belgium but sparsely populated. Its economy is driven by the Cano Limon oil field that is heavily guarded by soldiers, as well as agriculture and contraband.

Arauca is a traditional ELN fiefdom where the rebels impose their rules and "revolutionary" tax.

"Nothing happens without the consent of the ELN, which benefits from considerable income from organized extorsion and the oil wells," said the political scientist.

"FARC dissidents have been very active in recent months trying to take control of the drug trafficking routes to Venezuela and Brazil," said a security expert in Bogota.

 "There were a lot of murders in 2021," said one religious leader. "But the dynamic has suddenly accelerated.  This is just the beginning."

France24

IN the NEWS - Unrest all over

 They have heard that I sigh: Lamentations 1:21

 

"Haiti has asked for foreign troops to be sent to the country to protect key infrastructure after the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse.

The request was sent by the government to the U.S. and the U.N.

Haitian police earlier said a group of 28 foreign mercenaries killed the president on Wednesday.

The killing has triggered some civil unrest in Haiti, the poorest nation in the Americas. A state of emergency remains in force across the country and it is unclear who is in effective charge of the country's government." BBC

"South Africa will deploy soldiers to quell violence that erupted in the wake of former president Jacob Zuma’s jailing, the military said on Monday, after days of riots and looting left at least six people

dead.

Disturbances worsened as Zuma challenged his 15-month prison term in the country’s top court after weekend unrest by pro-Zuma protesters in his home province of KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) and Gauteng, where the country’s largest city Johannesburg is located.

Police said 219 arrests had been made, as opportunistic criminals appeared to take advantage of the anger some feel over Zuma’s incarceration to steal and cause destruction.

Any confrontation with soldiers risks fuelling claims by Zuma and his supporters that they are victims of a politically-motivated crackdown by his successor, President Cyril Ramaphosa.

The rand fell sharply after the military announced its deployment, extending losses to trade down 2% against the U.S. dollar by 12.30 p.m. local time (1030 GMT). Analysts said, however, that the slump was also partly driven by fears over the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Zuma, 79, was sentenced late last month for defying a constitutional court order to give evidence at an inquiry investigating high-level corruption during his nine years in office until 2018.

The decision to jail him resulted from legal proceedings seen as a test of post-apartheid South Africa’s ability to enforce the rule of law, including against powerful politicians.

In the past seven days, South Africa has never come closer to becoming a failed state. The riotous looting has reduced Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal, the two provinces hit hard by the social unrest into what resembles warzones. The country quickly descended into what could be the beginning innings of a civil war, prompting the government to call up military reserves and seek deployment of up to 25,000 troops to quell the violence. " France24/ZeroHedge

"More than 50 people have died since a wave of protests started to sweep across Colombia at the end of April.

Protesters have blocked key roads leading to shortages of fuel and food in some areas and there have been violent clashes between the security forces and demonstrators.

The government has been holding talks with protest leaders but with more and more groups joining in the demonstrations, the demands of those who have taken to the streets have widened and a quick resolution seems unlikely. 

 The demonstrations started on 28 April and were initially in opposition to a proposed tax reform. The proposed reform would have lowered the threshold at which salaries are taxed, affecting anyone with a monthly income of 2.6m pesos ($684; £493) or more. It would also have eliminated many of the current exemptions enjoyed by individuals, as well as increasing taxes imposed on businesses.

 There have also been marches by Colombians who oppose the protests. On Sunday, thousands took to the

streets of major cities to demand an end to the roadblocks and violent clashes." BBC