Wednesday, May 22, 2013

NEW JERSEY HOISTS PALESTINIAN FLAG

KING JESUS IS COMING FOR US ANY TIME NOW. THE RAPTURE. BE PREPARED TO GO.

OKLAHOMA HAPPENINGS THE LAST 2 DAYS
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Rescuers comb Oklahoma tornado rubble for buried survivors


By Ian Simpson and Alice Mannette
MOORE, Oklahoma (Reuters) - Rescue workers with sniffer dogs and searchlights picked through the wreckage of a massive tornado to ensure no survivors remained buried in the rubble of primary schools, houses and buildings in an Oklahoma City suburb.The massive tornado on Monday afternoon flattened entire blocks of the town, killed at least 24 people and injured about 240 in Moore, Oklahoma.But as dawn approached on Wednesday, officials were increasingly confident that everyone caught in the disaster had been accounted for, despite initial fears that the twister had claimed the lives of more than 90 people.Jerry Lojka, spokesman for Oklahoma Emergency Management, said search-and-rescue dog teams would search for anybody trapped under the rubble, but that attention would also be focused on a huge cleanup job.
"They will continue the searches of areas to be sure nothing is overlooked," he said. "There's going to be more of a transition to recovery."More than 1,000 people had already registered for assistance from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, or FEMA, which sent hundreds of workers to Oklahoma to help with the recovery.FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate said many more likely needed help but did not have working phones or Internet connections."Right now it's about getting people a place to stay that have lost their homes," he told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" program. "So we're going to start going neighborhood to neighborhood and talking to people and seeing what they're going to need."After a long day of searching through shattered homes that was slowed by rainy weather on Tuesday, Oklahoma County Commissioner Brian Maughan said it seemed no one was missing."As far as I know, of the list of people that we have had that they are all accounted for in one way or another," he said.Dog teams and members of the National Guard were changing shifts to work through the night.Nine children were among the 24 killed, including seven who died at Plaza Towers Elementary School, which took a direct hit by the deadliest tornado to strike the United States in two years.Emergency workers pulled more than 100 survivors from the debris of homes, schools and a hospital after the tornado ripped through the Oklahoma City region with winds exceeding 200 miles per hour, leaving a trail of destruction 17 miles long and 1.3 miles wide.Plaza Towers Elementary was one of five schools in its path. "They literally were lifting walls up and kids were coming out," Oklahoma State Police Sergeant Jeremy Lewis said. "They pulled kids out from under cinder blocks without a scratch on them."The National Weather Service upgraded its calculation of the storm's strength on Tuesday, saying it was a rare EF5, the most powerful ranking on the Enhanced Fujita Scale
'I LOOKED UP AND SAW THE TORNADO'
The last time a giant twister tore through the area, on May 3, 1999, it killed more than 40 people and destroyed thousands of homes. That tornado also ranked as an EF5.Oklahoma Emergency Management's Lojka said 2,400 homes were damaged or obliterated and an estimated 10,000 people affected.Fugate, the FEMA administrator, told CNN the agency had enough money to pay for Oklahoma's recovery while still rebuilding in the Northeast from Superstorm Sandy. FEMA had $11.6 billion in its disaster relief fund, a spokesman said.U.S. Representative Tom Cole, who lives in Moore, told CBS "This Morning" that the Oklahoma Legislature was drafting a law that would allow the governor to tap into state rainy day funds.
The death toll was lower than might have been expected given the extent of the devastation in Moore, home to 55,000 people. Some ascribe the relatively low number to the fact many locals have small "storm safe" shelters, basically a concrete hole in the garage floor with a sliding roof that locks.U.S. Senator James Inhofe of Oklahoma said many people built cellars and safe areas after the 1999 tornado in Moore. "There would have been a lot more people killed, we believe, if they had not had that warning 14 years ago," he said Tuesday on CNN.Billy McElrath, 50, of Oklahoma City, said his wife hid in a storm safe in their garage when the tornado hit.She emerged unhurt even though the storm destroyed the 1968 Corvette convertible she had bought him as a birthday present, and crushed a motorcycle. "Everything else is just trashed," he said as he loaded a pickup with salvaged goods.Kraig Boozier, 47, took to his own small shelter in the Westmoor subdivision of Oklahoma City and watched in shock as a fan in the wall was ripped out."I looked up and saw the tornado above me," he said.When he came out after the storm, he helped a neighbor who had emerged from her own shelter move a car that was blocking the entrance to another neighbor's shelter.
EARLY WARNING
Officials said another factor behind the surprisingly low death toll was the early warning, with meteorologists saying days in advance that a storm system was forming.Once a tornado was forming, people had 15 to 20 minutes of warning, which meant they could take shelter or flee the projected path. The weather service also has new, sterner warnings about deadly tornadoes to get people's attention.Many of those who do not have a basic storm shelter at home, which can cost $2,500 to $5,000, have learned from warnings over the year to seek hiding places at home during a tornado.Jackie Raper, 73, and her daughter, for instance, sought shelter in the bathtub in her house in Oklahoma City."The house fell on top of her," said Caylin Burgett, 16, who says Raper is like a grandmother to her. Raper broke her arm and femur, and bruised her lungs, Burgett said.(Additional reporting by Carey Gillam, Lindsay Morris, Nick Carey, Brendan O'Brien, Greg McCune, Susan Heavey and Doina Chiacu; Writing by Jim Loney and Jane Sutton; Editing by Walker Simon and Doina Chiacu)

I CAN NOT BELIEVE THIS HEADLINE.NEW JERSEY DECLARES PALESTINIAN DAY.....SICK.SO IS NEW JERSEY GOING TO TURN INTO THE NEXT GAZA AND START PERSECUTING ISRAELIS IN NEW YORK AND SHOOTING ROCKETS AT THEM LIKE GAZANS DO IN ISRAEL.WHAT-NONSENSE HOGWASH IS GOING ON IN THE WORLD ANYWAY WITH THIS PALESTINIAN ARAB/MUSLIM SUCKUP AND ISRAEL HATE.

NJ Designated 'Palestinian Day', Hoists Flag Over City Hall

The mayor of Paterson, NJ, had designated Sunday, May 19 as “Palestinian-American Day” in the city, as PA flag hoisted over City Hall.
By Arutz Sheva staff-First Publish: 5/22/2013, 2:07 PM-Israelnationalnews

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The mayor of Paterson, New Jersey, had designated Sunday, May 19 as “Palestinian-American Day” in the city, as he hoisted a Palestinian flag hoisted over City Hall. The occasion might mark first time that the Palestinian flag has flown above any American city hall, The Bergen Record reported.“If they’re citizens of the city of Paterson, they have every right to raise the flag,” Paterson Mayor Jeffery Jones told The Record.

The event was attended by about 120 people shouting “long live Palestine.”“Palestine is our country and we are proud of that,” said oen resident in attendance. “We’re happy [to be] recognized finally.”South Paterson is often known as “Little Ramallah” for its sizeable Arab population.New Jersey Assemblyman Thomas Giblin, a Democrat representing the state’s 34th district, presented a ceremonial resolution marking the event, and U.S. Rep. Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-NJ) presented a letter of Special Congressional Recognition.

Op-Ed: Chrisians Beautify Their Palestinian Nightmare

Published: Wednesday, May 22, 2013 11:33 AM
Palestinian Arab Christians have chosen to support the side that wants to destroy Christianity. Hating Jews forges a bond between enemies.


Palestinian Christians have manipulated Western public opinion so well that on the very rare occasion that Western media do cover the real plight of Christians in the Palestinian Authority areas, it is only to denounce Israel and its barrier or checkpoints.Last year veteran CBS News anchor Bob Simon reported on the Palestinian Arab Christians, indicting Israel’s “occupation” as responsible for their dramatic disappearance. The 60 Minutes story caused Israel tremendous PR damage. As in the case of “The Stones Cry Out”, the CBS video doesn’t mention forced marriages, conversions, beatings, land thefts, fire bombings, commercial boycott, torture, kidnapping, sexual harassment, and extortion which Arab Christians suffer under the horrible PLO dictatorship.
A report in 2002, based on Israeli intelligence gathered during Operatio Defensive Shield, explained that “Arafat’s intelligence network intimidated the Christian population in Bethlehem. They extorted money from them, confiscated land and property and left them to the mercy of street gangs and other criminal activity, with no protection”.Christian graves, crosses, and statues were desecrated and Christians suffered physical abuse, beatings, and Molotov attacks.But it would be a mistake to depict these Christians as mere victims of Muslim Arab violence. They are also guilty, since they choose to demonize Israel as the human rights violator.After the 1948 war, Christian communities suffered most in Judea, not under “Israel’s occupation”, but because Muslim refugees were settled in their midst by the corrupted PLO leadership. According to veteran journalist Danny Rubinstein, who has been writing about Palestinian Arabs for the last 46 years, “Bethlehem saw an influx of thousands of Muslim refugees from the villages in the southern part of Jerusalem, and three refugee camps were erected”.Until Palestinian terrorists turned Bethlehem into a safe haven for suicide bombers and Jews’ assassins, the Christian Arab Bethlehemites were free to enter IJerusalem, just as many Israelis visited the "little town" in Judea.The horrible Arafat gang turned Bethlehem and its holy places into the town which exported a string of deadly terror attacks into Jerusalem during the Intifada. In Beit Jala, the Christian town on the outskirts of Bethlehem, Islamic sharpshooters established their firing positions next to churches and Christian institutions and aimed. The target was the southern Jerusalem residential Jewish neighborhood of Gilo, but ultimately they also wanted to cleanse any Christians from the area. The result is that 25,000 Christians left Beit Jala and only 6,000 Christians still live in that town.The Jews have always challenged any kind of totalitarianism and today are the first in line to challenge a political Islam that wants to destroy their soul: the State of Israel.The Palestinian Christians stand today at the opposite side of the barricade. One day they may realize the strategic mistake they made by embracing Palestinian fascism, but it will be too late for all of them.  

Britain files request for EU sanctions on Hezbollah

Today @ 09:29 MAY 22,13
By Andrew Rettman
BRUSSELS - The UK has asked EU countries to designate the military wing of Lebanese group Hezbollah as a terrorist entity.A British foreign ministry spokesman told the Reuters news agency on Tuesday (21 May): "We are calling for Europe to respond collectively and robustly following the atrocious terrorist attack at Burgas airport ... We firmly believe that an appropriate EU response would be to designate Hezbollah's military wing as a terrorist organisation."He added that it would help to stop "future attacks ... on European soil."Bulgaria in February said the preliminary results of its investigation into a bomb blast in Burgas, on Bulgaria's Black Sea coast, in July last year indicated that Hezbollah organised the strike.It killed five Israeli tourists and a local bus driver and injured 32 other people.Cyprus in March also jailed a Lebanese-Swedish man on charges of scouting Israeli targets for another attack by the group.Its support for the Syrian regime has further blackened its name.Up to 6,000 Hezbollah fighters are said to be in Damascus, where they guard the Sayyidah Zaynab mosque, and in the Syrian towns of Homs and Qusayr near the Lebanese-Syrian border.Counter-terrorism specialists from EU countries will consider the British request, made last week, at a meeting in Brussels on 4 June.If all 27 states agree, it will become illegal for Hezbollah sympathisers in Europe to send it money and for EU governments or diplomats to meet its military staff.The UK already listed Hezbollah's military wing in 2008. The Netherlands listed the whole group in 2004.Germany has also voiced support for an EU-level designation.But France, the former colonial power in Lebanon, has voiced opposition.The French fear the move could destabilise Lebanon, where Hezbollah is a leading political party and a popular source of welfare.It could also ingrain the image of Europe as pandering to US-Israeli interests because many Arabs admire Hezbollah as the only force capable of hurting the Israeli army.Meanwhile, Italy, which contributes a large continent to a UN peacekeeping force in Lebanon, has voiced concern about revenge attacks.For its part, the US said on Tuesday the EU should follow the Dutch model by listing the whole group."Hezbollah's numerous branches and subsidiaries share common funding, personnel and leadership, all of which support the group's violent actions," state department spokesman Patrick Ventrell told AFP.British foreign minister William Hague also on Tuesday told his national parliament the UK will urge EU foreign ministers at a meeting in Brussels next Monday to relax a ban on arming Syrian rebels.He said the move would increase pressure for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to negotiate."The EU should give strong support to this diplomatic process, including by agreeing further amendments to the arms embargo, without taking any decisions at present to send arms to the Syrian opposition," he noted.The UK has so far this year shipped €14 million of "non-lethal" kit to rebel forces.The material includes armoured jeeps, body armour, trucks and forklifts, solar power generators, water purification kits, equipment to search for survivors in bombed out buildings, computers, satellite phones and office equipment.

05/21/2013 VATICAN INSIDER

Spanish province of Asturias says goodbye to “Christmas” and hello to “winter holidays”

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The Asturian regional government has sent a circular to schools asking for all references to Christmas to be removed from the school calendar and replaced with “winter holidays”

Marco Tosatti Rome The Asturian government has decided to do its bit to help eradicate Spain’s Christian cultural roots. The regional government’s education minister, Doña Ana González Rodríguez, sent a circular round to all schools under her jurisdiction, asking them to remove the terms “Christmas” and “Holy Week” from the school calendar.Mrs. Gonzalez wants all references to Christianity to be replaced with equivalents such as “winter holidays” and “end of second term holidays” that are acceptable to everyone, including non Christians.There’s just one problem though. The decision was taken without consulting the schools in question or the parents. Naturally, the Observatory for Religious Freedom and Freedom of Conscience (OLRC) asked Mrs. Gonzalez to take into account common sentiment and respect for tradition and urged her to work towards ensuring young people get the rounded education they are so in need of at the moment. ORLC spokeswoman Maria Garcia criticised Mrs. Gonzalez’s brilliant attempt at trying to get people to forget Spain’s Christian roots.According to the Socialist government of the Principate of Asturias, this decision was taken so as “not to hurt peoples’ sensitivities.” Celebrations “have always been called Christmas and Holy Week/Easter and no one has been offended by that,” the ORLC argued. “But Asturia’s education minister thought she could achieve this week of nothingness without consulting the education community’s leading figures. At ORLC we cannot understand how exactly how people’s sensitivities are being offended and we are asking Doña Ana González to explain her reasons.”“The ORLC therefore urges the Minister to renounce her secularist aspirations, seeing as though Spain is a country with Christian roots , which cannot simply be forgotten from one minute to the next,” Maria Garcia added. One must not forget that the process of reconquering land invaded by the northern African Muslim invaders many centuries ago began in Asturias.Asturias’ socialist government is copying what many other European socialist governments seem to be doing. There was a heated controversy in Belgium in recent weeks, over a ministerial circular which banned people from talking about “Easter holidays”, replacing it instead with “spring holidays”. On this occasion too, the justification given was the need for secularised public institutions that would not “offend” non Christian immigrants.So November’s All Saints Day celebration will be called “autumn leave”; the Christmas holidays will become “winter holidays” and even the Carnival is being pushed aside and replaced with “relaxation leave”. Flemish and Waloon nationalists have spoken out against the umpteenth attempt to destroy Belgium’s Christian heritage.

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