KING JESUS IS COMING FOR US ANY TIME NOW. THE RAPTURE. BE PREPARED TO GO.
By Gil Ronen First Publish: 4/10/2013, 8:57 PM-Israelnationalnews
Nautical archaeologists have reported the discovery of a
"monumental" conical stone pile built of large, natural, unhewn basalt
cobbles and boulders, on the floor of the Sea of Galilee.The structure is definitely
man-made, and measures about 70 meters in diameter at a depth of about
219 meters, reported archaeologists Yitzhak Paz, Moshe Reshef, Zvi
Ben-Avraham, Shmuel Marco, Gideon Tibor and Dani Nadel, in the
International Journal of Nautical Archaeology.Close inspection by scuba diving revealed that the structure is made of basalt boulders up to 1 meter long with no apparent construction pattern and no signs of cutting or chiseling."A possible interpretation for the structure is related to the fact that it attracts fish and thus may be interpreted as a part of a marine-based economy. If so, the structure must have been built as an underwater structure,"
the archaeologists wrote, noting that structures built of stone that
are thought to be ancient fish nurseries are well known in the Sea of
Galilee and are found near the shores at regular intervals. However,
they are significantly smaller than the structure revealed recently, with diameters of up to 4 meters.An alternative scenario is that the structure was built onshore, when the water level was lower than today.A report on LiveScience.com said the structure appears to be a giant
cairn, with rocks piled on top of each other. "Structures like this are
known from elsewhere in the world and are sometimes used to mark
burials," according to the report. "Researchers do not know if the newly
discovered structure was used for this purpose."Researcher Yitzhak Paz, of the Israel Antiquities Authority and Ben-Gurion University, told LiveScience.com the structure could date back more than 4,000 years. The "effort invested
in such an enterprise is indicative of a complex, well-organized
society, with planning skills and economic ability," the researchers
wrote in their journal paper.
ZECHARIAH 12:1-5 King James Bible
1 The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, saith the LORD, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him.
2 Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem.
3 And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.
4 In that day, saith the LORD, I will smite every horse with astonishment, and his rider with madness: and I will open mine eyes upon the house of Judah, and will smite every horse of the people with blindness.
5 And the governors of Judah shall say in their heart, The inhabitants of Jerusalem shall be my strength in the LORD of hosts their God.
JOEL 3:2
2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.(WW3 STARTS BECAUSE JERUSALEM IS DIVIDED AND ISRAELIS UPROOTED FROM THEIR GOD GIVIN LAND)
ZECHARIAH 14:12-13
12 And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.
13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from the LORD shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour.(1/2-3 BILLION DIE IN WW3)
By Arutz Sheva staff First Publish: 4/10/2013, 9:06 PM-Israelnationalnews
Guatemala has recognized
“Palestine” as a sovereign state, claiming such a move will help foster
peace in the Middle East, the president's office announced Tuesday. Guatemala "has decided to join the vast majority of Latin American
and Caribbean countries and recognize the State of Palestine, as a free,
sovereign and independent State," the statement said, according to AFP. "This decision in no way altars Guatemala's long tradition of
friendship and cooperation with the State of Israel, a relationship the
Guatemalan Government highly values," the statement added.Guatemala wants talks between "the State of Israel and the State of
Palestine, backed by the international community, to gain new momentum,"
the statement added.Meanwhile, the Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas has ruled out any
return to the peace process, which has remained at a standstill since
2010, until Israel agrees to freeze all Jewish construction in Judea,
Samaria, and east Jerusalem; releases all prisoners held in Israel
detentionl; and resolve the so-called “refugee” issue. Abbas has said
that he wants Netanyahu to present a map of the borders of a future
“Palestinian” state before talks can resume."It would be insane to present such a map, giving up our most
important asset, without the Palestinians having committed themselves to
anything," a high-ranking Israeli official told Israel’s Maariv newspaper on Monday.Visiting the region, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry sought to pursue a "quiet strategy" for breaking the years-long impasse.Speaking to reporters after meeting Palestinian Authority prime
minister Salam Fayyad and Israeli President Shimon Peres on Monday,
Kerry said he was "intensely focused" on advancing the peace process
seen as "vital" to US and regional interests.
GENESIS 12:1-3
1 Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I (GOD) will shew thee:
2 And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:
3 And I will bless them that bless thee,(ISRAELIS) and curse (DESTROY) him that curseth thee:(DESTROY THEM) and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.
By Arutz Sheva staff First Publish: 4/10/2013, 5:39 PM-Israelnationalnews
Canadian Foreign Minister John Baird hailed his country's "special friendship" with Israel in Jerusalem talks with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Tuesday.The two officials "reaffirmed the close and special friendship that underpins the bilateral relationship between our two countries," a joint statement said.
"Today, the Jewish people are masters of their own fate, like other nations, in their own sovereign, Jewish state."Like other nations, Israel has the right to defend itself, by itself," the statement said.The two men also discussed Iran's nuclear program, the Syrian conflict and relations between Israel and Turkey, aiming to strengthen the "security relationship" between Canada and Israel, it added.Canada showed its support for Israel on the international stage in November last year, opposing the Palestinian Authority's ultimately successful bid for upgraded status at the United Nations.Earlier in the day Baird met with Israeli President Shimon Peres, while on Sunday he met Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmud Abbas and prime minister Salam Fayyad in Ramallah.
DOCTOR DOCTORIAN FROM ANGEL OF GOD
then the angel said, Financial crisis will come to Asia. I will shake the world.
JAMES 5:1-3
1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
REVELATION 18:10,17,19
10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.
17 For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,
19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.
EZEKIEL 7:19
19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.
REVELATION 13:16-18
16 And he(THE FALSE POPE WHO DEFECTED FROM THE CHRISTIAN FAITH) causeth all,(IN THE WORLD ) both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:(MICROCHIP IMPLANT)
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark,(MICROCHIP IMPLANT) or the name of the beast,(WORLD DICTATORS NAME INGRAVED ON YOUR SKIN OR TATTOOED ON YOU OR IN THE MICROCHIP IMPLANT) or the number of his name.(THE NUMBERS OF HIS NAME INGRAVED IN THE MICROCHIP IMLPLANT)-(ALL THESE WILL TELL THE WORLD DICTATOR THAT YOUR WITH HIM AND AGAINST KING JESUS-GOD)
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast:(WORLD LEADER) for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.(6-6-6) A NUMBER SYSTEM (6006006)OR(60020202006)(SOME KIND OF NUMBER IMPLANTED IN THE MICROCHIP THAT TELLS THE WORLD DICTATOR AND THE NEW WORLD ORDER THAT YOU GIVE YOUR TOTAL ALLIGIENCE TO HIM AND NOT JESUS)(ITS AN ETERNAL DECISION YOU MAKE)(YOU CHOOSE YOUR OWN DESTINY)(YOU TAKE THE DICTATORS NAME OR NUMBER UNDER YOUR SKIN,YOUR DOOMED TO THE LAKE OF FIRE AND TORMENTS FOREVER,NEVER ENDING MEANT ONLY FOR SATAN AND HIS ANGELS,NOT HUMAN BEINGS).OR YOU REFUSE THE MICROCHIP IMPLANT AND GO ON THE SIDE OF KING JESUS AND RULE FOREVER WITH HIM ON EARTH.YOU CHOOSE,ITS YOUR DECISION.
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HALF HOUR DOW RESULTS THU APRIL 11,2013
09:30 AM -2.43
10:00 AM +17.88
10:30 AM +24.56
11:00 AM +63.35
11:30 AM +70.70
12:00 PM +55.61
12:30 PM +50.70
01:00 PM +81.91
01:30 PM +70.25
02:00 PM +74.16
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03:00 PM +61.30
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04:00 PM +62.90 14,865.14
S&P 500 1593.37 =5.64
NASDAQ 3300.15 +2.90
GOLD 1,564.90 +6.10
OIL 93.37 -1.27
TSE 300 12,481.37 -53.54
CDNX 1048.54 +0.80
S&P/TSX/60 714.16 -3.85
MORNING,NEWS,STATS
YEAR TO DATE PERFORMANCE
Dow -4 points at 4 minutes of trading today.
Dow -5 points at low today.
Dow +24 points at high today so far.
GOLD opens at $1,560.80.OIL opens at $94.45 today.
AFTERNOON,NEWS,STATS
Dow -5 points at low today so far.
Dow +81 points at high today so far.
WRAPUP,NEWS,STATS
Dow -5 points at low today.
Dow +81 points at high today.
GOLD ALLTIME HIGH $1,902.60 (NOT AT CLOSE)
NATURAL GAS-THU
"We strongly urge North Korea not to exacerbate the crisis on the Korean peninsula," Ryoo said.The Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland, a nonmilitary agency that deals with relations with South Korea, said its "striking means" have been "put on standby for a launch and the coordinates of targets put into the warheads." It didn't clarify further. The statement was the latest in a torrent of warlike threats seen outside Pyongyang as an effort to raise fears and pressure Seoul and Washington into changing their North Korea policy.Officials in Seoul and Washington say Pyongyang appears to be preparing to test-fire a medium-range missile designed to reach the U.S. territory of Guam in the Pacific Ocean.
Such a launch would violate U.N. Security Council resolutions prohibiting North Korea from nuclear and ballistic missile activity, and mark a major escalation in Pyongyang's standoff with neighboring nations and the U.S.North Korea already has been punished in recent months for launching a long-range rocket in December and conducting an underground nuclear test in February.Analysts do not believe North Korea will stage an attack similar to the one that started the Korean War in 1950. But there are concerns that the animosity could spark a skirmish that could escalate into a serious conflict."North Korea has been, with its bellicose rhetoric, with its actions ... skating very close to a dangerous line," U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said in Washington on Wednesday. "Their actions and their words have not helped defuse a combustible situation."The missile that officials believe Pyongyang is readying has been dubbed the "Musudan" by foreign experts after the northeastern village where North Korea has a launch pad. The missile has a range of 3,500 kilometers (2,180 miles) and is designed to reach U.S. military installments in Guam and Japan, experts say.Bracing for a launch that officials said could take place at any time, Seoul deployed three naval destroyers, an early warning surveillance aircraft and a land-based radar system, a Defense Ministry official said in Seoul, speaking on condition of anonymity in line with department rules. Japan deployed PAC-3 missile interceptors around Tokyo.But officials in Seoul played down security fears, noting that no foreign government has evacuated its citizens from either Korean capital. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry was headed to Seoul on Friday for talks with South Korean officials on the tensions."North Korea has continuously issued provocative threats and made efforts to raise tension on the Korean peninsula ... but the current situation is being managed safely and our and foreign governments have been calmly responding," Foreign Ministry spokesman Cho Tai-young told reporters Thursday.The war talk is seen as a way for North Korea to draw attention to the precariousness of the security situation on the Korean Peninsula and to boost the military credentials of young leader Kim Jong Un.The Korean War ended in 1953 with a truce, not a peace treaty, and the U.S. and North Korea do not have diplomatic relations.
For weeks, the U.S. and South Korea have staged annual military drills meant to show the allies' military might. North Korea condemns the drills as rehearsal for an invasion.Citing the tensions, North Korea on Monday pulled more than 50,000 workers from the Kaesong industrial park, which combines South Korean technology and know-how with cheap North Korean labor. It was the first time that production was stopped at the decade-old factory park, the only remaining symbol of economic cooperation between the Koreas.
South Korea's point man on North Korea, Unification Minister Ryoo Kihl-jae, urged Pyongyang to stop heightening tensions and to discuss the restart of operations in Kaesong.In Pyongyang, meanwhile, there was no sense of panic. Across the city, workers were rolling out sod and preparing the city for a series of April holidays.North Korean students put on suits and traditional dresses to celebrate Kim Jong Un's appointment as first secretary of the Workers' Party a year ago.A flower show and art performances are scheduled over the next few days in the lead-up to the nations' biggest holiday, the April 15 birthday of North Korea founder Kim Il Sung, father of the country's second leader, Kim Jong Il, and grandfather of the current leader.
Kim Jong Il elevated the military's role during his 17-year rule under a policy of "military first," and the government devotes a significant chunk of its annual budget to defense. Human rights groups say the massive spending on the military and on development of missile and nuclear technology comes at the expense of most of its 24 million people. Two-thirds face chronic food shortages, according to the World Food Program.
No military parade or mass events were expected over the coming week, but North Korea historically uses major holidays to show off its military power, and analysts say Pyongyang could well mark the occasion with a provocative missile launch in defiance of U.N. Security Council resolutions barring the North from nuclear and missile activity."However tense the situation is, we will mark the Day of the Sun in a significant way," Kim Kwang Chon, a Pyongyang citizen, told The Associated Press, referring to the April 15 birthday. "We will celebrate the Day of the Sun even if war breaks out tomorrow."During last year's celebrations, North Korea failed in an attempt to send a satellite into space aboard a long-range rocket. The U.S. and its allies criticized the launch as a covert test of ballistic missile technology.A subsequent test in December was successful, and that was followed by the country's third underground nuclear test on Feb. 12, possibly taking the regime closer to mastering the technology for mounting an atomic weapon on a missile.___Associated Press writers Hyung-jin Kim in Seoul, South Korea, contributed to this report.___Follow AP's Korea bureau chief on Twitter at twitter.com/newsjean.
But all was calm in the South Korean capital, Seoul, long used to North Korean invective under its 30-year-old leader Kim Jong-un. Offices worked normally and customers crowded into city-center cafes.
Seoul stocks edged up 0.77 percent from a four-and-a-half-month low hit earlier in the week, though trading was light with threats from the North still clouding the picture. The won currency gained 0.3 percent.Other officials in Seoul said surveillance of North Korean activity had been enhanced. Missile transporters had been spotted in South Hamgyong province along North Korea's east coast - a possible site for a launch.
North Korea observes several anniversaries in the next few days and they could be pretexts for displays of military strength. These include the first anniversary of Kim's formal ascent to power, the 20th anniversary of rule by his father, Kim Jong-il, who died in 2011, and the anniversary, next Monday, of the birth of the young Kim's grandfather, state founder Kim Il-Sung.The near-daily threats to South Korea and the United States of recent weeks were muted in the North's state media on Wednesday, with the focus largely on the upcoming festivities.State television showed mass gatherings, including women in traditional flowing robes, listening to addresses, laying flowers at monuments and taking part in a culinary competition.The North's KCNA news agency said people were "doing their best to decorate cities". Another dispatch reported a "production upsurge" in the coal, steel, iron and timber industries, with figures showing a quarterly plan set by authorities had been "overfulfilled".In Washington, Admiral Samuel Locklear, the commander of U.S. forces in the Pacific region, said the U.S. military believed North Korea had moved an unspecified number of Musudan missiles to its east coast.The trajectory of the missile, if launched, is unclear as the North has failed to inform international bodies - as it did in previous instances - of the path it is expected to take. But it is unlikely to be aimed directly at the South.The Musudan has a range of 3,500 km (2,100 miles) or more, according to South Korea, which would put Japan within range and may even threaten Guam, home to U.S. bases. South Korea can be reached by the North's short-range Scud missiles.
LAUNCH POSSIBLE "AT ANY TIME"
Foreign Minister Yun told a parliamentary hearing: "According to intelligence obtained by our side and the U.S., the possibility of a missile launch by North Korea is very high."North Korea, he said, could launch a Musudan missile "at any time from now".The U.S.-South Korea Combined Forces Command in Seoul raised its "Watchcon 3" status, a normal condition, by one level to boost monitoring and increase the number of intelligence staff, a senior military official told the South's Yonhap news agency.Yonhap also reported that South Korea, which has not joined a U.S.-led global missile defense system, was planning to develop a system of its own. It quoted an unidentified senior military official as saying this would involve early warning radars, ship-to-air and land-based systems, to be used in conjunction with U.S. early warning satellites.
Yun said he was coordinating with China and Russia "to make efforts to persuade North Korea to change its attitude".China is North Korea's sole major ally, although its influence over Pyongyang is open to question and Beijing has, in any event, endorsed the new sanctions. Moscow backed North Korea in Soviet times, though its influence has waned.A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman issued a fresh appeal for restraint and said nothing about any possible effort to bring about a change in the North's policy.Patricia Lewis, research director at the London-based Chatham House think-tank, said that strictly on the basis of the North's vast conventional forces, caution was required."The conventional military capabilities of North Korea are all too real and all too close to Seoul," she wrote in a paper. "Any incursion could escalate involving the U.S. and Japan, China, perhaps Russia and others."The North has tested short-range Scud missiles. The longer-range Musudan and Nodong missiles are an unknown quantity."If the missile was in defense of the homeland, I would certainly recommend that action (of intercepting it). And if it was defense of our allies, I would recommend that action," Locklear told a Senate hearing in Washington.Pyongyang has threatened a nuclear strike on the United States - something it does not have the capacity to carry out - and "war" with "puppet" South Korea - threats that appear to be aimed at least in part at boosting internal support for Kim.
WEEKS OF EXERCISES
The North is also angry about weeks of joint South Korean-U.S. military exercises. About 28,000 U.S. forces are permanently based in South Korea.U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry visits Seoul this week.
On Tuesday, the North told foreigners in South Korea to leave to avoid being dragged into a "thermonuclear war". It previously warned diplomats in Pyongyang to prepare to leave.The North closed a money-spinning industrial park it operates with South Korean companies this week, putting at risk a venture that is one of its few sources of hard cash.Officials said 292 South Koreans remained in the complex just inside the North Korean border, apparently waiting for clarification over Pyongyang's plans.In China's northeast region of Dandong, tour operators said they had been told by authorities to halt overland tourism to North Korea and some tourists were turned away. Other tours, including those involving air travel, were operating as usual.
(Additional reporting by Christine Kim and by Ben Blanchard in Beijing and Max Duncan in Dandong; Writing by Ron Popeski; Editing by Raju Gopalakrishnan and Robert Birsel)
JEREMEIAH 49:35-37 (IN IRAN AT THE BUSHEHR NUKE SITE SOME BELIEVE)
35 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will break the bow of Elam,(IRAN/BUSHEHR NUCLEAR SITE) the chief of their might.(MOST DANGEROUS NUKE SITE IN IRAN)
36 And upon Elam will I bring the four winds from the four quarters of heaven,(IRANIANS SCATTERED OR MASS IMIGARATION) and will scatter them toward all those winds; and there shall be no nation whither the outcasts of Elam shall not come.(WORLD IMMIGRATION)
37 For I will cause Elam (IRAN-BUSHEHR NUKE SITE) to be dismayed before their enemies, and before them that seek their life: and I will bring evil upon them, even my fierce anger,(ISRAELS NUKES POSSIBLY) saith the LORD; and I will send the sword after them, till I have consumed them:(IRAN AND ITS NUKE SITES DESTROYED)
By Arutz Sheva staff - First Publish: 4/10/2013, 10:24 PM-Israelnationalnews
The United States reacted with concern Wednesday after Iran unveiled a new uranium production facility and two extraction mines, maintaining, however, that it has not been "blindsided" by the news.Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad hailed the advances on Tuesday and boasted of mastery over "the entire chain of nuclear energy" only days after talks with world powers on its disputed nuclear program ended in deadlock.
"They have continued to move forward, we are very concerned about what they are doing," a senior State Department official told the AFP news agency on condition of anonymity.The official acknowledged that despite intensive and "substantive" discussions in Almaty, Kazakhstan last week, Iran had given no hint of the news."We weren't blindsided about it, because we are rarely blindsided about the things that they are considering. But they did not specify that they were going to do this," the official said."They did specify that they were going to proceed forward and do everything they could to fulfill what they see as their inalienable right," the official told reporters traveling with US Secretary of State John Kerry.Kerry on Tuesday denounced the Iranian news as "provocative.""To make any step that increases the rapidity with which you move towards enriched fissile material raises the potential of questions, if not even threat," he told reporters at the end of a visit to Israel."The clock that is ticking on Iran's program has a stop moment and it does not tick interminably."The United States and its partners in the P5+1 talks wanted a diplomatic way forward, Kerry stressed, but "negotiations are not for the sake of negotiations, they are to make progress."
"Negotiations cannot be allowed to become a process of delay which in and of itself creates greater danger."
While all diplomatic channels seem to have been exhausted and remain at a standstill, Iran continues to inch closer and close to obtaining nuclear weapons, as calls to obliterate the Jewish nation continue to emanate from Tehran.
Monumental Cone-Shaped Structure Found in Sea of Galilee
Nautical archeologists think structure may have been built onshore and then submerged.
The Kinneret-Flash 90
Liberal Jews see a victory in proposed prayer area
By | Associated Press – 1 hr 10 mins ago APR 10,13- View PhotoAssociated Press/Sebastian Scheiner - A man holds up a Torah scroll as women stand across a fence at the Western Wall, the holiest site where Jews can pray in Jerusalem's old city, Wednesday, April 10, 2013.
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli authorities have proposed establishing a new section at the Western Wall
where men and women can pray together, a groundbreaking initiative that
would mark a significant victory by liberal streams of Judaism in their
long quest for recognition.The proposal is aimed at ending turmoil surrounding the Orthodox
establishment's monopoly over the site, highlighted by the arrests of
female worshippers who prayed while performing religious rituals the
Orthodox say are reserved for men."One Western Wall
for one Jewish people," said Natan Sharansky, chairman of the
quasi-governmental Jewish Agency and mastermind of the proposal. He
expressed hope that the site "will once again be a symbol of unity among
the Jewish people, and not one of discord and strife."While it still needs government approval, the proposal already risks upsetting Israel's
powerful ultra-Orthodox community as well as the Western Wall's Muslim
neighbors, reflecting the explosive mix of religious sensitivities in
the area.The Western Wall, a retaining
wall of the biblical Temple compound, is the holiest site where Jews can
pray. Currently, it is divided into men's and women's sections. Orthodox rabbis, who control Israel's religious institutions, oppose mixed prayers.Under the plan, Israel would create a permanent area for mixed-gender and women-led prayer.
It would be situated in an area on a lower level where limited mixed
prayer already is allowed, but which mainly serves as an archaeological
site.The area would be renovated with a platform that would place it at
the same level as the rest of the Western Wall plaza and operate around
the clock, like the men's and women's sections.It also would be easily accessible from the main entrance to the
plaza. Like the other sections, it would be stocked with Torah scrolls
and prayer books. Currently, worshippers must bring their own prayer
materials.Rabbi Gilad Kariv, who heads Israel's Reform Jewish movement, said
that the proposal could become a watershed moment for liberal Judaism."If the Israeli government
embraces the solution, I think it's a breakthrough of relations between
the Israeli government and the progressive Jewish world," Kariv said.He said he believed "there are good chances" that Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu's new Cabinet, which does not include any
ultra-Orthodox parties, will support the plan.A spokesman for Netanyahu declined comment. But in a boost for the
plan, the Western Wall's Orthodox rabbi, Shmuel Rabinowitz, endorsed the
new prayer section."I want everyone to pray according to Orthodox Jewish
religious law, but I don't interfere," Rabinowitz told Army Radio. "If
these things can be done at the Western Wall without hurting others, and
this can bring about compromise and serenity, I don't object."While most Israelis are secular, Judaism has a formal place in the
country's affairs, and Orthodox rabbis strictly govern religious events
such as weddings, divorces and burials for the Jewish population. The
ultra-Orthodox, who follow their strict brand of Judaism by promoting
religious studies over work, military service and other involvement in
modern society, wield vast political power, although they make up only
about 10 percent of the population.The Orthodox rabbinate has fiercely resisted inroads by the
progressive Reform and Conservative streams of Judaism, refusing to
recognize their rulings, conversions or ceremonies as religiously valid.This has led to a deepening rift with American Jews, most of whom are affiliated with the liberal streams.Nowhere has this conflict been
more visible than at the Western Wall. Women of the Wall, a group that
conducts monthly prayer sessions there, have endured arrests, heckling
and legal battles in a struggle to attain what they consider their
inalienable right — praying and worshipping at the Western Wall as men
do. Under Reform and Conservative Judaism, women may be ordained as rabbis, read from the Torah or Jewish holy book, and wear prayer shawls.The proposal's acceptance would
be the latest in a series of achievements by Reform and Conservative
Jewish streams to win recognition in Israel, where their communities are small compared to the Orthodox.Last year, Israel agreed to grant state funding to some non-Orthodox rabbis; Orthodox rabbis are paid by the government.In 2010, the Israeli government froze a controversial bill that would
have strengthened Orthodox control over Jewish conversions. The same
year, Israel began allowing Israelis with no declared religion to marry
outside the strict religious establishment — giving hope to many who
reject the Orthodox monopoly on family matters. Civil marriages are
generally banned in Israel.These small steps toward recognition, including the new plan, have
angered some in the ultra-Orthodox community, who see such concessions
as part of a slippery slope that could threaten their customs."The moment we allow these groups a foothold, then tomorrow they will
start to restrain us in our own synagogues, in the name of democracy,
in the name of liberalism and in the name of pluralism," said Shmuel
Poppenheim, an ultra-Orthodox activist who serves as a spokesman for the
community.The plan was also criticized by the Muslim religious authority that
oversees the nearby Al-Aqsa Mosque compound. Any Israeli changes to the
compound, real or perceived, have set off violent clashes in the past.The head of the Islamic religious authority in Jerusalem said the
area, which lies near the Mughrabi Gate and footbridge that lead to the
Al-Aqsa compound, was disputed and Israel should not claim it."If they pray in this place now, tomorrow they will say it's a Jewish
sacred place and will take it forever," said Izzam al-Khatib, head of
the Islamic religious authority in Jerusalem.While the Jewish Agency has not released full details of its plan,
Sharansky said that in order to respect Muslim sensitivities, the
arrangement would not touch the Mughrabi Gate and footbridge.Women of the Wall will hold their monthly prayer service at the holy
site on Thursday and a showdown with police is expected, as with
previous monthly visits. Israeli police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said
police would strictly enforce restrictions against women wearing
religious garments, in order to lower tensions in the area.Women of the Wall cautiously welcomed the proposal."The principle is the most important issue here," said Peggy Cidor, a
board member of Women of the Wall. "The most important thing for us is
that someone has at last understood that this cannot continue."___Associated Press writers Daniel Estrin and Josef Federman in
Jerusalem and Mohammed Daraghmeh in Ramalla, West Bank, contributed to
this report.
ZECHARIAH 12:1-5 King James Bible
1 The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, saith the LORD, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him.
2 Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem.
3 And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.
4 In that day, saith the LORD, I will smite every horse with astonishment, and his rider with madness: and I will open mine eyes upon the house of Judah, and will smite every horse of the people with blindness.
5 And the governors of Judah shall say in their heart, The inhabitants of Jerusalem shall be my strength in the LORD of hosts their God.
JOEL 3:2
2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.(WW3 STARTS BECAUSE JERUSALEM IS DIVIDED AND ISRAELIS UPROOTED FROM THEIR GOD GIVIN LAND)
ZECHARIAH 14:12-13
12 And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.
13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from the LORD shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour.(1/2-3 BILLION DIE IN WW3)
Guatemala Recognizes 'Free, Sovereign Palestine'
Guatemala has recognized “Palestine” as a sovereign state, claiming such a move will help foster peace in the Middle East.
Arabs riot (archive)-Flash 90
GENESIS 12:1-3
1 Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I (GOD) will shew thee:
2 And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:
3 And I will bless them that bless thee,(ISRAELIS) and curse (DESTROY) him that curseth thee:(DESTROY THEM) and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.
Canadian FM Meets Netanyahu, Peres; Hails 'Special Friendship'
Canadian
FM John Baird hailed his country's "special friendship" with Israel in
Jerusalem talks with PM Netanyahu, President Peres.
President Peres and Canadian FM John Baird-Reuters
"Today, the Jewish people are masters of their own fate, like other nations, in their own sovereign, Jewish state."Like other nations, Israel has the right to defend itself, by itself," the statement said.The two men also discussed Iran's nuclear program, the Syrian conflict and relations between Israel and Turkey, aiming to strengthen the "security relationship" between Canada and Israel, it added.Canada showed its support for Israel on the international stage in November last year, opposing the Palestinian Authority's ultimately successful bid for upgraded status at the United Nations.Earlier in the day Baird met with Israeli President Shimon Peres, while on Sunday he met Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmud Abbas and prime minister Salam Fayyad in Ramallah.
DOCTOR DOCTORIAN FROM ANGEL OF GOD
then the angel said, Financial crisis will come to Asia. I will shake the world.
JAMES 5:1-3
1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
REVELATION 18:10,17,19
10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.
17 For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,
19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.
EZEKIEL 7:19
19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.
REVELATION 13:16-18
16 And he(THE FALSE POPE WHO DEFECTED FROM THE CHRISTIAN FAITH) causeth all,(IN THE WORLD ) both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:(MICROCHIP IMPLANT)
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark,(MICROCHIP IMPLANT) or the name of the beast,(WORLD DICTATORS NAME INGRAVED ON YOUR SKIN OR TATTOOED ON YOU OR IN THE MICROCHIP IMPLANT) or the number of his name.(THE NUMBERS OF HIS NAME INGRAVED IN THE MICROCHIP IMLPLANT)-(ALL THESE WILL TELL THE WORLD DICTATOR THAT YOUR WITH HIM AND AGAINST KING JESUS-GOD)
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast:(WORLD LEADER) for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.(6-6-6) A NUMBER SYSTEM (6006006)OR(60020202006)(SOME KIND OF NUMBER IMPLANTED IN THE MICROCHIP THAT TELLS THE WORLD DICTATOR AND THE NEW WORLD ORDER THAT YOU GIVE YOUR TOTAL ALLIGIENCE TO HIM AND NOT JESUS)(ITS AN ETERNAL DECISION YOU MAKE)(YOU CHOOSE YOUR OWN DESTINY)(YOU TAKE THE DICTATORS NAME OR NUMBER UNDER YOUR SKIN,YOUR DOOMED TO THE LAKE OF FIRE AND TORMENTS FOREVER,NEVER ENDING MEANT ONLY FOR SATAN AND HIS ANGELS,NOT HUMAN BEINGS).OR YOU REFUSE THE MICROCHIP IMPLANT AND GO ON THE SIDE OF KING JESUS AND RULE FOREVER WITH HIM ON EARTH.YOU CHOOSE,ITS YOUR DECISION.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PX-vW4VccY&feature=player_embedded#!
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HALF HOUR DOW RESULTS THU APRIL 11,2013
09:30 AM -2.43
10:00 AM +17.88
10:30 AM +24.56
11:00 AM +63.35
11:30 AM +70.70
12:00 PM +55.61
12:30 PM +50.70
01:00 PM +81.91
01:30 PM +70.25
02:00 PM +74.16
02:30 PM +43.85
03:00 PM +61.30
03:30 PM +57.53
04:00 PM +62.90 14,865.14
S&P 500 1593.37 =5.64
NASDAQ 3300.15 +2.90
GOLD 1,564.90 +6.10
OIL 93.37 -1.27
TSE 300 12,481.37 -53.54
CDNX 1048.54 +0.80
S&P/TSX/60 714.16 -3.85
MORNING,NEWS,STATS
YEAR TO DATE PERFORMANCE
Dow -4 points at 4 minutes of trading today.
Dow -5 points at low today.
Dow +24 points at high today so far.
GOLD opens at $1,560.80.OIL opens at $94.45 today.
AFTERNOON,NEWS,STATS
Dow -5 points at low today so far.
Dow +81 points at high today so far.
WRAPUP,NEWS,STATS
Dow -5 points at low today.
Dow +81 points at high today.
GOLD ALLTIME HIGH $1,902.60 (NOT AT CLOSE)
NATURAL GAS-THU
North Korea delivers new round of war rhetoric
By | Associated Press – 1 hr 40 mins ago APR 11,13
PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — North Korea delivered a fresh round of rhetoric Thursday with claims it had "powerful striking means" on standby for a missile launch, while Seoul and Washington speculated that the country is preparing to test a medium-range missile during upcoming national celebrations.
On the streets of Pyongyang, meanwhile, North Koreans celebrated the anniversary of leader Kim Jong Un's appointment to the country's top party post — one in a slew of titles collected a year ago in the months after father Kim Jong Il's death.In the capital of neighboring South Korea,
the country's point person on relations with the North, Unification
Minister Ryoo Kihl-jae, urged Pyongyang to cool down, engage in dialogue
and reverse its decision to suspend operations of a joint industrial
park just north of their shared border."We strongly urge North Korea not to exacerbate the crisis on the Korean peninsula," Ryoo said.The Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland, a nonmilitary agency that deals with relations with South Korea, said its "striking means" have been "put on standby for a launch and the coordinates of targets put into the warheads." It didn't clarify further. The statement was the latest in a torrent of warlike threats seen outside Pyongyang as an effort to raise fears and pressure Seoul and Washington into changing their North Korea policy.Officials in Seoul and Washington say Pyongyang appears to be preparing to test-fire a medium-range missile designed to reach the U.S. territory of Guam in the Pacific Ocean.
Such a launch would violate U.N. Security Council resolutions prohibiting North Korea from nuclear and ballistic missile activity, and mark a major escalation in Pyongyang's standoff with neighboring nations and the U.S.North Korea already has been punished in recent months for launching a long-range rocket in December and conducting an underground nuclear test in February.Analysts do not believe North Korea will stage an attack similar to the one that started the Korean War in 1950. But there are concerns that the animosity could spark a skirmish that could escalate into a serious conflict."North Korea has been, with its bellicose rhetoric, with its actions ... skating very close to a dangerous line," U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said in Washington on Wednesday. "Their actions and their words have not helped defuse a combustible situation."The missile that officials believe Pyongyang is readying has been dubbed the "Musudan" by foreign experts after the northeastern village where North Korea has a launch pad. The missile has a range of 3,500 kilometers (2,180 miles) and is designed to reach U.S. military installments in Guam and Japan, experts say.Bracing for a launch that officials said could take place at any time, Seoul deployed three naval destroyers, an early warning surveillance aircraft and a land-based radar system, a Defense Ministry official said in Seoul, speaking on condition of anonymity in line with department rules. Japan deployed PAC-3 missile interceptors around Tokyo.But officials in Seoul played down security fears, noting that no foreign government has evacuated its citizens from either Korean capital. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry was headed to Seoul on Friday for talks with South Korean officials on the tensions."North Korea has continuously issued provocative threats and made efforts to raise tension on the Korean peninsula ... but the current situation is being managed safely and our and foreign governments have been calmly responding," Foreign Ministry spokesman Cho Tai-young told reporters Thursday.The war talk is seen as a way for North Korea to draw attention to the precariousness of the security situation on the Korean Peninsula and to boost the military credentials of young leader Kim Jong Un.The Korean War ended in 1953 with a truce, not a peace treaty, and the U.S. and North Korea do not have diplomatic relations.
For weeks, the U.S. and South Korea have staged annual military drills meant to show the allies' military might. North Korea condemns the drills as rehearsal for an invasion.Citing the tensions, North Korea on Monday pulled more than 50,000 workers from the Kaesong industrial park, which combines South Korean technology and know-how with cheap North Korean labor. It was the first time that production was stopped at the decade-old factory park, the only remaining symbol of economic cooperation between the Koreas.
South Korea's point man on North Korea, Unification Minister Ryoo Kihl-jae, urged Pyongyang to stop heightening tensions and to discuss the restart of operations in Kaesong.In Pyongyang, meanwhile, there was no sense of panic. Across the city, workers were rolling out sod and preparing the city for a series of April holidays.North Korean students put on suits and traditional dresses to celebrate Kim Jong Un's appointment as first secretary of the Workers' Party a year ago.A flower show and art performances are scheduled over the next few days in the lead-up to the nations' biggest holiday, the April 15 birthday of North Korea founder Kim Il Sung, father of the country's second leader, Kim Jong Il, and grandfather of the current leader.
Kim Jong Il elevated the military's role during his 17-year rule under a policy of "military first," and the government devotes a significant chunk of its annual budget to defense. Human rights groups say the massive spending on the military and on development of missile and nuclear technology comes at the expense of most of its 24 million people. Two-thirds face chronic food shortages, according to the World Food Program.
No military parade or mass events were expected over the coming week, but North Korea historically uses major holidays to show off its military power, and analysts say Pyongyang could well mark the occasion with a provocative missile launch in defiance of U.N. Security Council resolutions barring the North from nuclear and missile activity."However tense the situation is, we will mark the Day of the Sun in a significant way," Kim Kwang Chon, a Pyongyang citizen, told The Associated Press, referring to the April 15 birthday. "We will celebrate the Day of the Sun even if war breaks out tomorrow."During last year's celebrations, North Korea failed in an attempt to send a satellite into space aboard a long-range rocket. The U.S. and its allies criticized the launch as a covert test of ballistic missile technology.A subsequent test in December was successful, and that was followed by the country's third underground nuclear test on Feb. 12, possibly taking the regime closer to mastering the technology for mounting an atomic weapon on a missile.___Associated Press writers Hyung-jin Kim in Seoul, South Korea, contributed to this report.___Follow AP's Korea bureau chief on Twitter at twitter.com/newsjean.
North Korea close to "dangerous line" with nuclear rhetoric: Hagel
Reuters – 3 hrs ago APR 10,13
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said on Wednesday that North Korea has been skating close to a "dangerous line" with its near-daily threats against the United States and South Korea."North Korea has been, with its bellicose rhetoric, its action, ... skating very close to a dangerous line," Hagel
said at a Pentagon news conference to discuss the department's 2014
budget. "Their actions and words have not helped defuse a combustible
situation."Asked whether U.S. citizens should be concerned about the threats, Hagel said the United States had the capacity to defend its citizens and those of its allies from any action North Korea might take.(Reporting By David Alexander; Editing by Sandra Maler)
South Korea increases surveillance as North moves missiles
By Daum Kim and Phil Stewart | Reuters – 5 hrs ago APR 10,13
By Daum Kim and Phil Stewart
SEOUL/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - South Korea said on Wednesday there
was "very high" probability that North Korea, engaged in weeks of
threats of war, would launch a medium-range missile at any time as a
show of strength despite diplomatic efforts to soften its position.Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se said South Korea had asked China and
Russia to intercede with the North to ease tension that has mounted
since the U.N. Security Council imposed fresh sanctions on North Korea
after its third nuclear arms test in February.But all was calm in the South Korean capital, Seoul, long used to North Korean invective under its 30-year-old leader Kim Jong-un. Offices worked normally and customers crowded into city-center cafes.
Seoul stocks edged up 0.77 percent from a four-and-a-half-month low hit earlier in the week, though trading was light with threats from the North still clouding the picture. The won currency gained 0.3 percent.Other officials in Seoul said surveillance of North Korean activity had been enhanced. Missile transporters had been spotted in South Hamgyong province along North Korea's east coast - a possible site for a launch.
North Korea observes several anniversaries in the next few days and they could be pretexts for displays of military strength. These include the first anniversary of Kim's formal ascent to power, the 20th anniversary of rule by his father, Kim Jong-il, who died in 2011, and the anniversary, next Monday, of the birth of the young Kim's grandfather, state founder Kim Il-Sung.The near-daily threats to South Korea and the United States of recent weeks were muted in the North's state media on Wednesday, with the focus largely on the upcoming festivities.State television showed mass gatherings, including women in traditional flowing robes, listening to addresses, laying flowers at monuments and taking part in a culinary competition.The North's KCNA news agency said people were "doing their best to decorate cities". Another dispatch reported a "production upsurge" in the coal, steel, iron and timber industries, with figures showing a quarterly plan set by authorities had been "overfulfilled".In Washington, Admiral Samuel Locklear, the commander of U.S. forces in the Pacific region, said the U.S. military believed North Korea had moved an unspecified number of Musudan missiles to its east coast.The trajectory of the missile, if launched, is unclear as the North has failed to inform international bodies - as it did in previous instances - of the path it is expected to take. But it is unlikely to be aimed directly at the South.The Musudan has a range of 3,500 km (2,100 miles) or more, according to South Korea, which would put Japan within range and may even threaten Guam, home to U.S. bases. South Korea can be reached by the North's short-range Scud missiles.
LAUNCH POSSIBLE "AT ANY TIME"
Foreign Minister Yun told a parliamentary hearing: "According to intelligence obtained by our side and the U.S., the possibility of a missile launch by North Korea is very high."North Korea, he said, could launch a Musudan missile "at any time from now".The U.S.-South Korea Combined Forces Command in Seoul raised its "Watchcon 3" status, a normal condition, by one level to boost monitoring and increase the number of intelligence staff, a senior military official told the South's Yonhap news agency.Yonhap also reported that South Korea, which has not joined a U.S.-led global missile defense system, was planning to develop a system of its own. It quoted an unidentified senior military official as saying this would involve early warning radars, ship-to-air and land-based systems, to be used in conjunction with U.S. early warning satellites.
Yun said he was coordinating with China and Russia "to make efforts to persuade North Korea to change its attitude".China is North Korea's sole major ally, although its influence over Pyongyang is open to question and Beijing has, in any event, endorsed the new sanctions. Moscow backed North Korea in Soviet times, though its influence has waned.A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman issued a fresh appeal for restraint and said nothing about any possible effort to bring about a change in the North's policy.Patricia Lewis, research director at the London-based Chatham House think-tank, said that strictly on the basis of the North's vast conventional forces, caution was required."The conventional military capabilities of North Korea are all too real and all too close to Seoul," she wrote in a paper. "Any incursion could escalate involving the U.S. and Japan, China, perhaps Russia and others."The North has tested short-range Scud missiles. The longer-range Musudan and Nodong missiles are an unknown quantity."If the missile was in defense of the homeland, I would certainly recommend that action (of intercepting it). And if it was defense of our allies, I would recommend that action," Locklear told a Senate hearing in Washington.Pyongyang has threatened a nuclear strike on the United States - something it does not have the capacity to carry out - and "war" with "puppet" South Korea - threats that appear to be aimed at least in part at boosting internal support for Kim.
WEEKS OF EXERCISES
The North is also angry about weeks of joint South Korean-U.S. military exercises. About 28,000 U.S. forces are permanently based in South Korea.U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry visits Seoul this week.
On Tuesday, the North told foreigners in South Korea to leave to avoid being dragged into a "thermonuclear war". It previously warned diplomats in Pyongyang to prepare to leave.The North closed a money-spinning industrial park it operates with South Korean companies this week, putting at risk a venture that is one of its few sources of hard cash.Officials said 292 South Koreans remained in the complex just inside the North Korean border, apparently waiting for clarification over Pyongyang's plans.In China's northeast region of Dandong, tour operators said they had been told by authorities to halt overland tourism to North Korea and some tourists were turned away. Other tours, including those involving air travel, were operating as usual.
(Additional reporting by Christine Kim and by Ben Blanchard in Beijing and Max Duncan in Dandong; Writing by Ron Popeski; Editing by Raju Gopalakrishnan and Robert Birsel)
JEREMEIAH 49:35-37 (IN IRAN AT THE BUSHEHR NUKE SITE SOME BELIEVE)
35 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will break the bow of Elam,(IRAN/BUSHEHR NUCLEAR SITE) the chief of their might.(MOST DANGEROUS NUKE SITE IN IRAN)
36 And upon Elam will I bring the four winds from the four quarters of heaven,(IRANIANS SCATTERED OR MASS IMIGARATION) and will scatter them toward all those winds; and there shall be no nation whither the outcasts of Elam shall not come.(WORLD IMMIGRATION)
37 For I will cause Elam (IRAN-BUSHEHR NUKE SITE) to be dismayed before their enemies, and before them that seek their life: and I will bring evil upon them, even my fierce anger,(ISRAELS NUKES POSSIBLY) saith the LORD; and I will send the sword after them, till I have consumed them:(IRAN AND ITS NUKE SITES DESTROYED)
US Not 'Blindsided' By Iran's New Uranium Mines?
US
concerned after Iran unveiled new uranium production facility and two
extraction mines; maintains officials were not "blindsided".
Iran's Isfahan Uranium Conversion Facility-AFP file
"They have continued to move forward, we are very concerned about what they are doing," a senior State Department official told the AFP news agency on condition of anonymity.The official acknowledged that despite intensive and "substantive" discussions in Almaty, Kazakhstan last week, Iran had given no hint of the news."We weren't blindsided about it, because we are rarely blindsided about the things that they are considering. But they did not specify that they were going to do this," the official said."They did specify that they were going to proceed forward and do everything they could to fulfill what they see as their inalienable right," the official told reporters traveling with US Secretary of State John Kerry.Kerry on Tuesday denounced the Iranian news as "provocative.""To make any step that increases the rapidity with which you move towards enriched fissile material raises the potential of questions, if not even threat," he told reporters at the end of a visit to Israel."The clock that is ticking on Iran's program has a stop moment and it does not tick interminably."The United States and its partners in the P5+1 talks wanted a diplomatic way forward, Kerry stressed, but "negotiations are not for the sake of negotiations, they are to make progress."
"Negotiations cannot be allowed to become a process of delay which in and of itself creates greater danger."
While all diplomatic channels seem to have been exhausted and remain at a standstill, Iran continues to inch closer and close to obtaining nuclear weapons, as calls to obliterate the Jewish nation continue to emanate from Tehran.
US keen for Germany to lead EU out of crisis
09.04.13 @ 17:51
Berlin - US treasury secretary Jack Lew
on Tuesday (9 April) hinted that Germany should boost its internal
demand to help Europe get out of the crisis.But German finance minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said Berlin has no need for US tutelage."We need to balance policies of growth and fiscal consolidation. The
driving force behind any recovery is consumer demand, so any policies to
help encourage consumer demand in countries that have the capacity
would be helpful," Lew said during a joint press conference with
Schaeuble in Berlin.
Germany has a policy of keeping down wages in order to make it a more attractive location for manufacturers and exporters.But the low pay stymies growth in German domestic consumption.At the same time, its firm policy on avoiding inflation has kept the euro relatively strong on currency markets, hampering efforts by crisis-hit eurozone states, such as Greece or Spain, to export their way out of trouble.For his part, Schaeuble, while welcoming the new US minister on his first visit to Berlin, said there is no need for Germany or the US to give "lessons" or "grades" to each other."We need to understand each other. The situation in the US is completely different than the one in Europe and I was trying to explain that," he told press."I tried to explain to him the complicated structures we have here in Europe. We are on the right way [out of the crisis], but we have complex decision making structures," he added.Both officials tried to downplay their differences on how to balance austerity with growth-spurring measures."I would emphasise the areas where we agree - we share a commitment to growth and to fiscal discipline," Lew said.According to one German official, the two ministers had a "getting to know each-other-kind-of meeting."The contact noted that Lew simply set out what the US is doing to stimulate growth and asked what Germany is doing on the same front.The source said they also discussed the Cyprus bailout, with Schaeuble "explaining more what happened, how we came to this decision rather than looking forward in terms of what comes next."Lew also showed interest in the EU's so-called banking union - a subject he also raised at meetings in Brussels and Frankfurt, the headquarters of the European Central Bank (ECB), on Monday.The banking union project envisages making the ECB into a single supervisor of all big eurozone banks, as well as common EU ruleson how to wind down or recapitalise failing lenders.Germany is currently opposing any model which involves joint risk-taking - in other words, German taxpayers having to pay for failing banks in Spain or Cyprus.During a press statement on Monday in Brussels after meeting EU council chief Herman Van Rompuy, Lew said he "appreciated the chance to hear about the scope to broaden the framework for oversight and risk sharing in line with euro-area's large and interconnected banking sector."He also stressed that the US has an "immense stake" in Europe's economic recovery.Later on Tuesday, Lew was set to fly to Paris to meet his French counterpart Pierre Moscovici, who rescheduled his US meeting amid an ongoing tax evasion scandal surrounding a former minister.
Germany has a policy of keeping down wages in order to make it a more attractive location for manufacturers and exporters.But the low pay stymies growth in German domestic consumption.At the same time, its firm policy on avoiding inflation has kept the euro relatively strong on currency markets, hampering efforts by crisis-hit eurozone states, such as Greece or Spain, to export their way out of trouble.For his part, Schaeuble, while welcoming the new US minister on his first visit to Berlin, said there is no need for Germany or the US to give "lessons" or "grades" to each other."We need to understand each other. The situation in the US is completely different than the one in Europe and I was trying to explain that," he told press."I tried to explain to him the complicated structures we have here in Europe. We are on the right way [out of the crisis], but we have complex decision making structures," he added.Both officials tried to downplay their differences on how to balance austerity with growth-spurring measures."I would emphasise the areas where we agree - we share a commitment to growth and to fiscal discipline," Lew said.According to one German official, the two ministers had a "getting to know each-other-kind-of meeting."The contact noted that Lew simply set out what the US is doing to stimulate growth and asked what Germany is doing on the same front.The source said they also discussed the Cyprus bailout, with Schaeuble "explaining more what happened, how we came to this decision rather than looking forward in terms of what comes next."Lew also showed interest in the EU's so-called banking union - a subject he also raised at meetings in Brussels and Frankfurt, the headquarters of the European Central Bank (ECB), on Monday.The banking union project envisages making the ECB into a single supervisor of all big eurozone banks, as well as common EU ruleson how to wind down or recapitalise failing lenders.Germany is currently opposing any model which involves joint risk-taking - in other words, German taxpayers having to pay for failing banks in Spain or Cyprus.During a press statement on Monday in Brussels after meeting EU council chief Herman Van Rompuy, Lew said he "appreciated the chance to hear about the scope to broaden the framework for oversight and risk sharing in line with euro-area's large and interconnected banking sector."He also stressed that the US has an "immense stake" in Europe's economic recovery.Later on Tuesday, Lew was set to fly to Paris to meet his French counterpart Pierre Moscovici, who rescheduled his US meeting amid an ongoing tax evasion scandal surrounding a former minister.
