KING JESUS IS COMING FOR US ANY TIME NOW. THE RAPTURE. BE PREPARED TO GO.
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Royal Bank has promised it will never outsource a Canadian job to a foreign worker solely to save money.
The bank updated its code of conduct on Friday, after facing intense criticism last month for its hiring policies.In a story first reported by CBC News, the bank was criticized heavily for laying off a number of IT workers in order to replace them with cheaper foreign workers."As part of its supplier review, RBC looked at the types of work the bank will and will not outsource to suppliers that execute all or part of the work offshore to ensure suppliers support RBC's focus on creating Canadian jobs and prosperity," the bank said in a statement Friday.
'Superior skill sets'
Specifically, the bank says it will only offshore work to suppliers "when their investment in scale, technology or operational knowledge provides superior skill sets and capabilities that RBC cannot duplicate inside its own business or in Canada.""RBC will not offshore work where salary savings is the primary reason and will make every effort to source in Canada," the bank says.The bank notes that all of its call centres are located in Canada, despite the trend in many industries to offshore them.The bank faced harsh criticism for taking advantage of a government program known as the temporary foreign workers program, which is aimed at filling labour needs where suitably skilled Canadian workers can't be found for any given job.The bank says it has used the program "on a very limited basis for executives and for workers with highly specialized skills," but in the new code of conduct, the bank says it will not use what it called the "low skills workers" program to fill jobs in Canada.The B.C. Federation of Labour said it welcomed the bank's move."RBC has recognized that Canadians expect Canada's banks to provide good, family-supporting jobs in Canada," said federation president Jim Sinclair.The federation said that following the initial reports of the outsourcing, the province's labour movement threatened to withdraw more than $5 billion in union and pension funds on deposit with the bank.The federation also said it will continue discussion with the bank on the establishment of an independent monitor to review implementation of the new code of conduct.
DANIEL 9:26-27
26 And after threescore and two weeks(62X7=434 YEARS+7X7=49 YEARS=TOTAL OF 69 WEEKS OR 483 YRS) shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary;(ROMAN LEADERS DESTROYED THE 2ND TEMPLE) and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.(THERE HAS TO BE 70 WEEKS OR 490 YRS TO FUFILL THE VISION AND PROPHECY OF DAN 9:24).(THE NEXT VERSE IS THAT 7 YR WEEK OR (70TH FINAL WEEK).
27 And he ( THE ROMAN,EU PRESIDENT) shall confirm the covenant (PEACE TREATY) with many for one week:(1X7=7 YEARS) and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,(3 1/2 yrs in TEMPLE SACRIFICES STOPPED) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
ISAIAH 28:14-19 (THIS IS THE 7 YR TREATY COVENANT OF DANIEL 9:27)
14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.
15 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
16 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.
17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.
19 From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.
Reuters – 16 mins ago MAY 25,13
IMPASSE OVER TERRITORY
Palestinians want all of the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem - lands captured by Israel in the 1967 Middle East War - for a future independent state. Israel has agreed in principle to Palestinian statehood but wants to keep all of Jerusalem as its undivided capital along with blocs of West Bank settlements.Most world powers do not recognize Israeli sovereignty in East Jerusalem and deem the settlements illegal.The EU last year called for "halting forced transfer of population and demolition of Palestinian housing and infrastructure, simplifying administrative procedures to obtain building permits ... and addressing humanitarian needs".
Since then, AIDA said, Israel has rejected 94 percent of Palestinian requests to build in Area C. Israel has yet to approve 32 EU-funded "master plans" to develop Palestinian villages filed since 2009, holding up the projects, AIDA said.In April, Kerry pledged to unfurl within a week a U.S.-backed investment initiative to support Palestinians in Area C. The plan appears to be stalled due to Israeli objections.Israel has made clear it will not permit independent Palestinian economic development in Area C."It was very clear in the (1993 interim) Oslo Accords ... that Israel has control of the economy and security in Area C," Regional Cooperation Minister Silvan Shalom told Reuters."I am not going to open the Oslo Accords just for resuming the negotiations," he said in an interview on Tuesday.In a statement to Reuters, the EU mission in Jerusalem said the EU had driven international efforts to get Israel to meet commitments on Palestinian living conditions in Area C but any change hinged on Israeli "engagement on this issue".(Reporting by Noah Browning and Crispian Balmer; Editing by Mark Heinrich)
DANIEL 7:23-25
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast (EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TRADING BLOCKS-10 WORLD REGIONS/TRADE BLOCS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings(10 NATIONS-10 WORLD DIVISION WORLD GOVERNMENT) that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.(TAKE OVER 3 WORLD REGIONS)
2 TIMOTHY 3:1
1 This know also, that in the last days perilous (DANGEROUS) times shall come.
JOEL 2:3,30
3 A fire devoureth before them;(ATOMIC BOMB) and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.
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,(DISOLVED) and their eyes shall consume away in their holes,(DISOLVED) and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.(DISOLVED)(BECAUSE NUKES HAVE BEEN USED ON ISRAELS ENEMIES)(GOD PROTECTS ISRAEL AND ALWAYS WILL)
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)(THIS IS AN ATOMIC BOMB EFFECT)
EZEKIEL 20:47
47 And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned therein.
ZEPHANIAH 1:18
18 Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD'S wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.
By Elad Benari, Canada-First Publish: 5/24/2013, 11:31 PM-Israelnationalnews
By Dominic Evans | Reuters – 23 hrs ago MAY 25,13
The interview with Bakri in his flat in the Abu Samra district of Tripoli was twice interrupted by his infant son Osama, who broke into the room playing with a plastic toy. The boy was named after slain al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden."He is supposed to go fight (U.S. President Barack) Obama in the future, and maybe to deal with the Obama of his times. We called him after... Sheikh Osama," Bakri said, smiling often as he spoke but lacing light-hearted comments with hints of menace.After a photographer took his picture, the bearded Bakri, wearing a black cloak over white trousers and white leather shoes, mockingly adopted a threatening pose."We know the media, they just want evil pictures," he said. "But we are going to be in power soon... Don't think that we sleep on our grievances. That Michael, after 10 years, he killed (the soldier) in front of everyone ... Was he a man or not?" "The prophet (Mohammad) said an infidel and his killer will not meet in Hell. That's a beautiful saying," he said. "May God reward (Adebolajo) for his actions."
Bakri said British authorities were inviting retaliation by targeting Muslims with anti-terrorist legislation and police raids."If you breach the covenant of security with Muslims you are digging your grave," he said. "I cannot condemn what Michael did. I don't see it as a crime as far as Islam is concerned".He said radical Islam was winning the bulk of converts in Britain and scoffed at the "moderate chocolate" Muslims who he said are "always melting the way the West wants them to be - they never stand for what they believe".
"They are just a waste of space".Bakri said his organization Al Muhajiroun had nothing to do with the attack because members had not seen Adebolajo since 2005. However, Anjem Choudary, who took over the leadership of Al Muhajiroun when Bakri was exiled from Britain, has told Reuters Adebolajo attended the group's events until about two years ago."Maybe Michael, in the eyes of many people in Britain, Muslim and non-Muslim, they don't condone what he did. They condemn it. But in the eyes of Muslims around the world they don't see him the same way. The Muslims in this country, they are so happy, proud of him. They see him as a freedom fighter attacking a military target."Bakri said he had been living in Lebanon since 2005, under an agreement by which Lebanon prevents him from leaving the country for 30 years. But he said he was in daily contact with students in Britain.(Editing by Peter Graff)
By Erika Solomon | Reuters – 3 mins 53 secs ago MAY 25,13
"I've never seen a day like this since the battle started," said Malek Ammar, an activist speaking from the town by Skype. "The shelling is so violent and heavy. It's like they're trying to destroy the city house by house."More than 22 people in opposition-held areas were killed by Saturday afternoon, most of them rebels, and dozens were injured, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.Rebels are largely surrounded in Qusair, a town of 30,000 that has become a strategic battleground. Assad's forces want to take the area to secure a route between the capital Damascus and his stronghold on the Mediterranean coast, effectively dividing rebel-held territories in the north and south.The opposition has been fighting back, seeing it as critical to maintain cross-border supply routes and stop Assad from gaining a victory they fear may give him the upper hand in proposed U.S.-Russia led peace talks next month.Syria's two-year uprising against four decades of Assad family rule began as peaceful protests but devolved into an armed conflict that has killed more than 80,000 people.Assad's forces are believed to have seized about two-thirds of Qusair, but the price has been high and rebels insist they are preventing any further advances.An official close to Hezbollah told Reuters that the fighters' advances in Qusair were happening at a very slow pace."We are in the second phase of our plan of attack but the advance has been quite slow and difficult. The rebels have mined everything, the streets, the houses. Even the refrigerators are mined."Assad and Hezbollah forces have also been working to capture territory in areas surrounding Qusair. Manar TV, Hezbollah's media wing, said the Syrian army recaptured the Dabaa airport near the town, which rebels had seized several weeks ago.
SECTARIAN FIGHTING THREATENS REGION
The fighting in Qusair has also highlighted the increasingly sectarian tone of Syria's political struggle, which is not only overshadowing the revolt but threatening to destabilize the region. Israel has launched two air strikes in Syria, and Lebanon, which fought its own sectarian-fuelled 15-year civil war, has seen a rise in Syria-linked violence.Syria's Sunni Muslim majority has led the struggle to topple Assad, and has been joined by Islamist fighters across the region, some of them linked to the militant group al Qaeda.Assad comes from the minority Alawite sect, an offshoot of Shi'ite Islam, and has relied on an army led mostly by Alawite forces. He has been bankrolled by regional Shi'ite power Iran, a longtime ally, and now increasingly by the country's Lebanese proxy, Shi'ite Hezbollah, founded as a resistance movement to Israel.Syrian rebels now say that whatever the outcome, they will plot sectarian revenge attacks on Shi'ite and Alawite villages on either side of the border.The Britain-based Syrian Observatory, which has a network of activists across Syria, said Assad forces led by Hezbollah were trying to advance from three directions in the city."Every area they didn't have a foothold in, they are trying to gain one now," Rami Abdelraham, head of the Observatory, told Reuters by telephone.Rebels from across Syria say they have sent some of their units into Qusair.Colonel Abdeljabbar al-Okaidi, the Aleppo-based regional leader of a moderate, internationally-backed Supreme Military Council said he and the Islamist brigade al-Tawheed had sent forces to the outskirts of the town to help the Qusair fighters.But activist Malek Ammar said no forces had arrived yet and insisted the rebels locked in Qusair were still on their own."No one is helping Qusair other than its own men," he said.
(This story has been corrected to change source of Hezbollah information to official, paragraph nine)
(Additional reporting by Laila Bassam; Editing by Sonya Hepinstall)
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The Man of Lawlessness: The Antichrist in the Tribulation-Saturday, May 25, 2013
Jan's first guest is prophecy scholar Dr. David Reagan. The two discuss the characteristics and heritage of the Antichrist and the False Prophet.
Is the global religious system outlined in the Bible Rome and therefore
related to Catholicism? The two remind listeners that the catastrophic
calamities happening today are setting the stage for the Tribulation
when all this mystery unfolds. Then Jan and producer Larry Kutzler talk to Tom Pritchard of the Minnesota Family Council.
Gay marriage has passed in Minnesota. What does that mean for your
state and the country? Twelve states have now acted on this. Find Dr
David Reagan's book here. -
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WELL WE KNOW OBAMA IS NOT THE ANTICHRIST.BUT OBAMA IS A FORERUNNER OF THE ANTICHRIST FOR SURE.WE CAN SEE HOW OBAMA WAS SO LOVED BY LIBERAL/ DEMOCRATES FOR THE FIRST HALF OF HIS 4 YR TERM.NOW IN HIS 2ND 4 YR TERM-THE WHEELS ARE FALLING OFF OBAMAS BICYCLE.HES GOT SCANDALS AND REBELLION GOING ON IN THIS 2ND 4 YR TERM.THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENS TO THE WORLD DICTATOR.FOR THE FIRST 3 1/2 YEARS OF THE 7 YR TRIBULATION PERIOD.THE WORLD DICTATOR OR ANTICHRIST IS PEACEFUL.BUT THE WHEELS FALL OFF THE DICTATORS BICYCLE AT THE MIDPOINT OF THE TRIBULATION-AFTER HE HAS A FALSE RESURRECTION AND DECLARED GOD BY THE WORLD.BUT HE GOES OUT TO KILL OFF EVERY CHRISTIAN /JEW CONVERTED TO CHRISTIANITY.EVERY ONE WHO LOVES JESUS AND THE BIBLE.
Royal Bank pledges not to outsource jobs for cash savings
The bank updated its code of conduct on Friday, after facing intense criticism last month for its hiring policies.In a story first reported by CBC News, the bank was criticized heavily for laying off a number of IT workers in order to replace them with cheaper foreign workers."As part of its supplier review, RBC looked at the types of work the bank will and will not outsource to suppliers that execute all or part of the work offshore to ensure suppliers support RBC's focus on creating Canadian jobs and prosperity," the bank said in a statement Friday.
Specifically, the bank says it will only offshore work to suppliers "when their investment in scale, technology or operational knowledge provides superior skill sets and capabilities that RBC cannot duplicate inside its own business or in Canada.""RBC will not offshore work where salary savings is the primary reason and will make every effort to source in Canada," the bank says.The bank notes that all of its call centres are located in Canada, despite the trend in many industries to offshore them.The bank faced harsh criticism for taking advantage of a government program known as the temporary foreign workers program, which is aimed at filling labour needs where suitably skilled Canadian workers can't be found for any given job.The bank says it has used the program "on a very limited basis for executives and for workers with highly specialized skills," but in the new code of conduct, the bank says it will not use what it called the "low skills workers" program to fill jobs in Canada.The B.C. Federation of Labour said it welcomed the bank's move."RBC has recognized that Canadians expect Canada's banks to provide good, family-supporting jobs in Canada," said federation president Jim Sinclair.The federation said that following the initial reports of the outsourcing, the province's labour movement threatened to withdraw more than $5 billion in union and pension funds on deposit with the bank.The federation also said it will continue discussion with the bank on the establishment of an independent monitor to review implementation of the new code of conduct.
DANIEL 9:26-27
26 And after threescore and two weeks(62X7=434 YEARS+7X7=49 YEARS=TOTAL OF 69 WEEKS OR 483 YRS) shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary;(ROMAN LEADERS DESTROYED THE 2ND TEMPLE) and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.(THERE HAS TO BE 70 WEEKS OR 490 YRS TO FUFILL THE VISION AND PROPHECY OF DAN 9:24).(THE NEXT VERSE IS THAT 7 YR WEEK OR (70TH FINAL WEEK).
27 And he ( THE ROMAN,EU PRESIDENT) shall confirm the covenant (PEACE TREATY) with many for one week:(1X7=7 YEARS) and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,(3 1/2 yrs in TEMPLE SACRIFICES STOPPED) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
ISAIAH 28:14-19 (THIS IS THE 7 YR TREATY COVENANT OF DANIEL 9:27)
14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.
15 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
16 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.
17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.
19 From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.
Aid groups urge EU to fulfil commitments to Palestinians
Reuters – 16 mins ago MAY 25,13
RAMALLAH, West Bank
(Reuters) - A group of 80 international aid agencies urged the European
Union on Saturday to follow through on pledges it made last year to
back Palestinian communities seen as vulnerable to Israeli settlement expansion in the occupied West Bank.Not enough action has been taken since EU foreign ministers last May urged Israel to ease curbs to growth on Palestinian villages and criticized its settlement policies, the Association of International Development Agencies (AIDA) said in a report.
British Foreign Secretary William Hague and U.S.
Secretary of State John Kerry visited the West Bank this week to try to
revive peace talks for an Israeli-Palestinian two-state solution they
say may become impossible with more settlement expansion.More than 600
settler houses have been built since last May while Israel demolished
535 Palestinian-owned homes and structures, including 30 built with EU
funding, displacing 784 Palestinians, the AIDA report said.It said Israel had approved plans to build 1,967 new
settler homes since last May, up four-fold from the year before."Israel is morally and legally responsible for the wellbeing of Palestinian men, women and children ... EU countries
have an obligation to address violations of international law and
collectively put pressure on Israel to end policies impeding Palestinian
development," Tony Laurence of Medical Aid for Palestinians wrote.The findings focus on a contiguous tract making up
around two-thirds of the West Bank dubbed "Area C". Interim 1993 peace
accords put the area under full Israeli military and civil control.
Palestinians got smaller, disparate patches to govern.The division was meant to be temporary and last only a
few years pending a pact ending the conflict. That has not happened.Some 150,000 Palestinians, many of them poor farmers
and shepherds, along with 325,000 Israeli settlers live in Area C.IMPASSE OVER TERRITORY
Palestinians want all of the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem - lands captured by Israel in the 1967 Middle East War - for a future independent state. Israel has agreed in principle to Palestinian statehood but wants to keep all of Jerusalem as its undivided capital along with blocs of West Bank settlements.Most world powers do not recognize Israeli sovereignty in East Jerusalem and deem the settlements illegal.The EU last year called for "halting forced transfer of population and demolition of Palestinian housing and infrastructure, simplifying administrative procedures to obtain building permits ... and addressing humanitarian needs".
Since then, AIDA said, Israel has rejected 94 percent of Palestinian requests to build in Area C. Israel has yet to approve 32 EU-funded "master plans" to develop Palestinian villages filed since 2009, holding up the projects, AIDA said.In April, Kerry pledged to unfurl within a week a U.S.-backed investment initiative to support Palestinians in Area C. The plan appears to be stalled due to Israeli objections.Israel has made clear it will not permit independent Palestinian economic development in Area C."It was very clear in the (1993 interim) Oslo Accords ... that Israel has control of the economy and security in Area C," Regional Cooperation Minister Silvan Shalom told Reuters."I am not going to open the Oslo Accords just for resuming the negotiations," he said in an interview on Tuesday.In a statement to Reuters, the EU mission in Jerusalem said the EU had driven international efforts to get Israel to meet commitments on Palestinian living conditions in Area C but any change hinged on Israeli "engagement on this issue".(Reporting by Noah Browning and Crispian Balmer; Editing by Mark Heinrich)
DANIEL 7:23-25
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast (EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TRADING BLOCKS-10 WORLD REGIONS/TRADE BLOCS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings(10 NATIONS-10 WORLD DIVISION WORLD GOVERNMENT) that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.(TAKE OVER 3 WORLD REGIONS)
Van Rompuy endorses restart of EU-Turkey talks
24.05.13 @ 09:27
By Andrew Rettman
BRUSSELS - European Council chief
Herman Van Rompuy has repeated his invitation for Turkish leader Recep
Tayyip Erdogan to come to Brussels to mark the restart of EU entry
talks.Speaking in Ankara on Thursday (23 May) - almost 50 years after the
EU and Turkey signed a pre-accession pact in 1963 and more than two
years after accession talks halted in 2010 - he said: "We should shortly
see the opening of a new chapter in the negotiations."He added: "I am honoured that the Prime Minister has accepted my
invitation to come to Brussels in the coming months in order to follow
up on today's fruitful discussions."
Speaking earlier the same day at a business seminar in the Turkish capital, he noted: "After a moment of standstill … [there is] a new impetus that will soon be translated into a concrete step forward."Despite growing anti-immigration sentiment in several EU countries, he also endorsed visa free travel.He told the business event: "I trust that an early signature by Turkey of a so-called readmission agreement with the European Union would allow us to advance quickly through the roadmap leading to visa free travel for Turkish citizens."He added: "Progress can be swift. Visa free travel would give our relationship a new impetus."Turkey accession talks fizzled out in 2010 partly due to French and German hostility and partly due to a veto by Cyprus.But France and Germany in recent months said they want to restart the process.
Van Rompuy also noted that the discovery of gas in Cypriot maritime zones "could be an incentive" for Cyprus and Turkey to end the frozen conflict over Turkish-controlled north Cyprus."A settlement would open up the range of options for the exploitation of hydrocarbon resources in the economically most advantageous way for the benefit of all Cypriots," he told the Turkish businessmen.Believers in Turkey's EU entry say it would increase the Union's influence in the Middle East and improve energy security by connecting Europe to the gas-rich Caspian Sea.But sceptics say Turkey has a way to go on human rights and that its poorer regions would suck in billions of EU cohesion money.Van Rompuy twice urged Erdogan to respect "freedom of expression."But he noted the Turkish economy would now be the fifth biggest in the Union in terms of total GDP - on par with the Netherlands, but ahead of Belgium, Poland and Sweden.
On the flip side, he assured Turkey the EU is not heading for economic meltdown."Let me underline my strong belief that the current stagnation is but momentary ... We will bounce back," he said."The existential threat to the eurozone has been defeated," he added.For his part, Erdogan has shunned the EU capital since 2009.He told Van Rompuy "that while Turkey is thinking about joining the European Union for its own benefit, it is also considering it for the gains it will bring to the EU … Turkey isn't going to be a burden."
He also noted: "There are currently more than 5 million Turks in the EU, there is already a Turkey [inside the European Union]."The two men's optimism is not shared by all, however.Popular support for EU membership in Turkey has fallen from a high of more than 70 percent in 2005 to 33 percent.Meanwhile, Nobel-prize-winning US economist Edmund Phelps earlier this week told news agency Bloomberg that Iceland is right to put its EU entry talks on hold."We’re still learning about the European experiment and to what extent it’s going to succeed," he said."I can't believe that anybody's serious about joining the EU right now … It’s like saying: 'It's a beautiful house - it happens to be on fire at the moment - we should buy it'," he added.
Speaking earlier the same day at a business seminar in the Turkish capital, he noted: "After a moment of standstill … [there is] a new impetus that will soon be translated into a concrete step forward."Despite growing anti-immigration sentiment in several EU countries, he also endorsed visa free travel.He told the business event: "I trust that an early signature by Turkey of a so-called readmission agreement with the European Union would allow us to advance quickly through the roadmap leading to visa free travel for Turkish citizens."He added: "Progress can be swift. Visa free travel would give our relationship a new impetus."Turkey accession talks fizzled out in 2010 partly due to French and German hostility and partly due to a veto by Cyprus.But France and Germany in recent months said they want to restart the process.
Van Rompuy also noted that the discovery of gas in Cypriot maritime zones "could be an incentive" for Cyprus and Turkey to end the frozen conflict over Turkish-controlled north Cyprus."A settlement would open up the range of options for the exploitation of hydrocarbon resources in the economically most advantageous way for the benefit of all Cypriots," he told the Turkish businessmen.Believers in Turkey's EU entry say it would increase the Union's influence in the Middle East and improve energy security by connecting Europe to the gas-rich Caspian Sea.But sceptics say Turkey has a way to go on human rights and that its poorer regions would suck in billions of EU cohesion money.Van Rompuy twice urged Erdogan to respect "freedom of expression."But he noted the Turkish economy would now be the fifth biggest in the Union in terms of total GDP - on par with the Netherlands, but ahead of Belgium, Poland and Sweden.
On the flip side, he assured Turkey the EU is not heading for economic meltdown."Let me underline my strong belief that the current stagnation is but momentary ... We will bounce back," he said."The existential threat to the eurozone has been defeated," he added.For his part, Erdogan has shunned the EU capital since 2009.He told Van Rompuy "that while Turkey is thinking about joining the European Union for its own benefit, it is also considering it for the gains it will bring to the EU … Turkey isn't going to be a burden."
He also noted: "There are currently more than 5 million Turks in the EU, there is already a Turkey [inside the European Union]."The two men's optimism is not shared by all, however.Popular support for EU membership in Turkey has fallen from a high of more than 70 percent in 2005 to 33 percent.Meanwhile, Nobel-prize-winning US economist Edmund Phelps earlier this week told news agency Bloomberg that Iceland is right to put its EU entry talks on hold."We’re still learning about the European experiment and to what extent it’s going to succeed," he said."I can't believe that anybody's serious about joining the EU right now … It’s like saying: 'It's a beautiful house - it happens to be on fire at the moment - we should buy it'," he added.
2 TIMOTHY 3:1
1 This know also, that in the last days perilous (DANGEROUS) times shall come.
JOEL 2:3,30
3 A fire devoureth before them;(ATOMIC BOMB) and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.
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,(DISOLVED) and their eyes shall consume away in their holes,(DISOLVED) and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.(DISOLVED)(BECAUSE NUKES HAVE BEEN USED ON ISRAELS ENEMIES)(GOD PROTECTS ISRAEL AND ALWAYS WILL)
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)(THIS IS AN ATOMIC BOMB EFFECT)
EZEKIEL 20:47
47 And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned therein.
ZEPHANIAH 1:18
18 Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD'S wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.
Assad Has Chemicals that Can Eradicate Entire Towns'
Assad has enough sarin to "eradicate the whole of Damascus," says a former scientist for the Syrian chemical weapons program.
President Bashar al-Assad-AFP photo
President Bashar al-Assad’s regime has enough of
the nerve agent sarin to "eradicate the whole of Damascus, Homs, Hama,
and Aleppo," a former scientist for the Syrian chemical weapons program says.
Speaking to Al Jazeera on condition of
anonymity after he fled Syria, the chemist said that the regime is not
likely to unleash its chemical stockpiles unless it “no longer cares
about the world knowing.""If the regime is to fire a Scud-B with a chemical
warhead filled with sarin, the missile would create a chemical cloud in
the atmosphere that is 3km long and 500m wide, which could be fatal to
all people under it," the chemist told Al Jazeera.He claimed that the regime has only used sarin
nerve gas in small quantities to halt rebel advances in four towns in
the suburbs of Damascus, in Aleppo’s Sheikh Maksoud district, in Idlib's
Saraqeb town and in Homs' al-Khalidiyeh district."The intention was to incapacitate rebels and force
them out of strategic areas, while keeping the deaths among their ranks
limited," the chemist said, who added that he was speaking out "to
dispel the myths on chemical weapons in Syria."The Syrian government has managed to keep
information about its chemical weapons largely beyond the reach of
outsiders, and to keep its scientists under heavy surveillance, even
keeping some under 24-hour guard.The exiled chemist told Al Jazeera that
Syria’s stockpile comprises 700 tons of sarin agent, at least 3,000
aerial bombs that could be filled with chemical agents and more than 100
chemical warheads for Scud missiles.Consistent with other intelligence reports, the
chemist said that Assad’s chemical weapons arsenal also contains mustard
gas and what experts describe as the deadliest of all nerve agents, VX.Some Western intelligence agencies believe that
Syria also has access to tabun nerve agent, but the chemist said these
reports are untrue.The regime and rebels have accused each other of
using chemical weapons on several occasions, and the issue has come to
dominate recent debate about the two-year-long conflict.The U.S. and Britain say they have "credible evidence" that chemical weapons have been used in Syria, and Turkey said its hospitals treated patients exposed to chemical attack.
The chemist said he fled the country before
December 23, 2012, when the first claims emerged about the regime’s use
of chemical weapons in the neighborhood of Khaldiyeh, in the city of
Homs. The neighborhood is strategic because it divides Sunnis and
largely pro-government Alawites.A diluted mix of sarin and isopropyl alcohol was likely used in December 2012, according to the scientist, but he cast doubt on the claims of the regime and rebels that chemical weapons were used in Khan al-Assal in Aleppo on March 19.
"When medics report [a] very disgusting smell, the
way they did in Khan al-Assal, it is obvious it’s not coming from
chemical weapons," the chemist told Al Jazeera. "The fact that patients only suffered from suffocation and no other symptoms further confirms that it was not sarin."The chemist said what was likely fired was
military-grade tear gas, used as a substitute for chemical agents. The
chemist explained that during the two-year conflict, the regime has
experimented with mixing different gases - like sarin and tear gas - in
order to create a mélange of symptoms that would make the cause hard to identify."When opposition activists report different kinds of symptoms
resulting from the different gases, it becomes hard to believe them.
Some opposition fighters report a burning sensation in the eyes, raising
the question as to whether this was tear gas or nerve gas," the chemist
told Al Jazeera.The scientist said the regime had convinced him that the weapons he was working on were for self-defense against Israel."It was our dogma that we were creating the
equivalent of Israel’s nuclear weapons," the chemist said. "Never were
we told that the weapons could be used inside the country."(Arutz Sheva’s North American Desk is keeping
you updated until the start of Shabbat in New York. The time posted
automatically on all Arutz Sheva articles, however, is Israeli time.)
ISAIAH 17:1,12-14
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
12 Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations,(USELESS U.N) that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters!
13 The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.
14 And behold at eveningtide trouble; and before the morning he is not.(ASSAD) This is the portion of them that spoil us,(ISRAEL) and the lot of them that rob us.
JEREMEIAH 49:23-27
23 Concerning Damascus.(SYRIA) Hamath is confounded, and Arpad: for they have heard evil tidings: they are fainthearted; there is sorrow on the sea;(WAR SHIPS WITH NUKES COMING ON SYRIA) it cannot be quiet.
24 Damascus is waxed feeble, and turneth herself to flee, and fear hath seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken her, as a woman in travail.
25 How is the city of praise not left, the city of my joy!
26 Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD of hosts.
27 And I will kindle a fire (NUKES OR BOMBS) in the wall of Damascus, and it shall consume the palaces of Benhadad.(ASSADS PALACES POSSIBLY IN DAMASCUS)
PSALMS 83:3-7
3 They (ARABS,MUSLIMS) have taken crafty counsel against thy people,(ISRAEL) and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they (MUSLIMS) have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:(TREATIES)
6 The tabernacles of Edom,(JORDAN) and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, PALESTINIANS,JORDAN) and the Hagarenes;(EGYPT)
7 Gebal,(HEZZBALLOH,LEBANON) and Ammon,(JORDAN) and Amalek;(SYRIA,ARABS,SINAI) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
12 Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations,(USELESS U.N) that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters!
13 The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.
14 And behold at eveningtide trouble; and before the morning he is not.(ASSAD) This is the portion of them that spoil us,(ISRAEL) and the lot of them that rob us.
JEREMEIAH 49:23-27
23 Concerning Damascus.(SYRIA) Hamath is confounded, and Arpad: for they have heard evil tidings: they are fainthearted; there is sorrow on the sea;(WAR SHIPS WITH NUKES COMING ON SYRIA) it cannot be quiet.
24 Damascus is waxed feeble, and turneth herself to flee, and fear hath seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken her, as a woman in travail.
25 How is the city of praise not left, the city of my joy!
26 Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD of hosts.
27 And I will kindle a fire (NUKES OR BOMBS) in the wall of Damascus, and it shall consume the palaces of Benhadad.(ASSADS PALACES POSSIBLY IN DAMASCUS)
PSALMS 83:3-7
3 They (ARABS,MUSLIMS) have taken crafty counsel against thy people,(ISRAEL) and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they (MUSLIMS) have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:(TREATIES)
6 The tabernacles of Edom,(JORDAN) and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, PALESTINIANS,JORDAN) and the Hagarenes;(EGYPT)
7 Gebal,(HEZZBALLOH,LEBANON) and Ammon,(JORDAN) and Amalek;(SYRIA,ARABS,SINAI) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)
IS THIS A SICK HEADLINE OR WHAT.
Exiled cleric who taught UK knifeman praises 'courage'
By Dominic Evans | Reuters – 23 hrs ago MAY 25,13
By Dominic Evans
TRIPOLI, Lebanon (Reuters) - A Syrian-born Islamist
cleric who taught one of the men accused of hacking to death an off-duty
British soldier on a London street praised the attack for its "courage"
and said Muslims would see it as a strike on a military target.In an interview in Tripoli, northern Lebanon, where he has lived since being banished from Britain in 2005, Omar Bakri, founder of banned British Islamist group Al Muhajiroun, said he knew suspect Michael Adebolajo from his lectures a decade ago."When I saw the footage I recognized the face
immediately," Bakri told Reuters. "I used to know him. A quiet man, very
shy, asking lots of questions about Islam.""What surprised me (is) the quiet man, the man who is
very shy, decided to carry out an attack against a British soldier in
the middle of the day in the middle of a street in the UK. In east
London. It's incredible."When I saw that, honestly I was very surprised -
standing firm, courageous, brave. Not running away. Rather, he said why
he carried (it out) and he wanted the whole world to hear it."The attack has been vociferously condemned by Muslim organizations across Britain.Adebolajo, 28, a British-born convert from a Christian
Nigerian immigrant family, went by the nickname Mujahid - warrior -
after taking up Islam as a teenager in a suburb on the northeast
outskirts of London.He was filmed with his hands still covered with the
blood of Afghan war veteran Lee Rigby, 25, after the attack. Clutching a
butcher's knife and meat cleaver, he said the killing was revenge for
British participation in wars in foreign countries.He and a second knife-wielding attacker, Nigerian-born naturalized British citizen Michael Adebowale,
22, are in hospital after being shot by police during their arrest.
They have yet to be charged. Police have also arrested another man and a
woman under suspicion of conspiracy to murder.
"WE DON'T SLEEP ON OUR GRIEVANCES"The interview with Bakri in his flat in the Abu Samra district of Tripoli was twice interrupted by his infant son Osama, who broke into the room playing with a plastic toy. The boy was named after slain al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden."He is supposed to go fight (U.S. President Barack) Obama in the future, and maybe to deal with the Obama of his times. We called him after... Sheikh Osama," Bakri said, smiling often as he spoke but lacing light-hearted comments with hints of menace.After a photographer took his picture, the bearded Bakri, wearing a black cloak over white trousers and white leather shoes, mockingly adopted a threatening pose."We know the media, they just want evil pictures," he said. "But we are going to be in power soon... Don't think that we sleep on our grievances. That Michael, after 10 years, he killed (the soldier) in front of everyone ... Was he a man or not?" "The prophet (Mohammad) said an infidel and his killer will not meet in Hell. That's a beautiful saying," he said. "May God reward (Adebolajo) for his actions."
Bakri said British authorities were inviting retaliation by targeting Muslims with anti-terrorist legislation and police raids."If you breach the covenant of security with Muslims you are digging your grave," he said. "I cannot condemn what Michael did. I don't see it as a crime as far as Islam is concerned".He said radical Islam was winning the bulk of converts in Britain and scoffed at the "moderate chocolate" Muslims who he said are "always melting the way the West wants them to be - they never stand for what they believe".
"They are just a waste of space".Bakri said his organization Al Muhajiroun had nothing to do with the attack because members had not seen Adebolajo since 2005. However, Anjem Choudary, who took over the leadership of Al Muhajiroun when Bakri was exiled from Britain, has told Reuters Adebolajo attended the group's events until about two years ago."Maybe Michael, in the eyes of many people in Britain, Muslim and non-Muslim, they don't condone what he did. They condemn it. But in the eyes of Muslims around the world they don't see him the same way. The Muslims in this country, they are so happy, proud of him. They see him as a freedom fighter attacking a military target."Bakri said he had been living in Lebanon since 2005, under an agreement by which Lebanon prevents him from leaving the country for 30 years. But he said he was in daily contact with students in Britain.(Editing by Peter Graff)
Hezbollah, Syrian government forces push for advance in Qusair
By Erika Solomon | Reuters – 3 mins 53 secs ago MAY 25,13
By Erika Solomon
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian government forces and the Lebanese guerrilla group Hezbollah launched a fierce campaign to seize more rebel territory in the border town of Qusair on Saturday, sources on both sides of the conflict said.Rebels fighting to topple President Bashar al-Assad
said additional tanks and artillery had been deployed around
opposition-held territory in Qusair, a Syrian town close to the Lebanese
border."I've never seen a day like this since the battle started," said Malek Ammar, an activist speaking from the town by Skype. "The shelling is so violent and heavy. It's like they're trying to destroy the city house by house."More than 22 people in opposition-held areas were killed by Saturday afternoon, most of them rebels, and dozens were injured, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.Rebels are largely surrounded in Qusair, a town of 30,000 that has become a strategic battleground. Assad's forces want to take the area to secure a route between the capital Damascus and his stronghold on the Mediterranean coast, effectively dividing rebel-held territories in the north and south.The opposition has been fighting back, seeing it as critical to maintain cross-border supply routes and stop Assad from gaining a victory they fear may give him the upper hand in proposed U.S.-Russia led peace talks next month.Syria's two-year uprising against four decades of Assad family rule began as peaceful protests but devolved into an armed conflict that has killed more than 80,000 people.Assad's forces are believed to have seized about two-thirds of Qusair, but the price has been high and rebels insist they are preventing any further advances.An official close to Hezbollah told Reuters that the fighters' advances in Qusair were happening at a very slow pace."We are in the second phase of our plan of attack but the advance has been quite slow and difficult. The rebels have mined everything, the streets, the houses. Even the refrigerators are mined."Assad and Hezbollah forces have also been working to capture territory in areas surrounding Qusair. Manar TV, Hezbollah's media wing, said the Syrian army recaptured the Dabaa airport near the town, which rebels had seized several weeks ago.
SECTARIAN FIGHTING THREATENS REGION
The fighting in Qusair has also highlighted the increasingly sectarian tone of Syria's political struggle, which is not only overshadowing the revolt but threatening to destabilize the region. Israel has launched two air strikes in Syria, and Lebanon, which fought its own sectarian-fuelled 15-year civil war, has seen a rise in Syria-linked violence.Syria's Sunni Muslim majority has led the struggle to topple Assad, and has been joined by Islamist fighters across the region, some of them linked to the militant group al Qaeda.Assad comes from the minority Alawite sect, an offshoot of Shi'ite Islam, and has relied on an army led mostly by Alawite forces. He has been bankrolled by regional Shi'ite power Iran, a longtime ally, and now increasingly by the country's Lebanese proxy, Shi'ite Hezbollah, founded as a resistance movement to Israel.Syrian rebels now say that whatever the outcome, they will plot sectarian revenge attacks on Shi'ite and Alawite villages on either side of the border.The Britain-based Syrian Observatory, which has a network of activists across Syria, said Assad forces led by Hezbollah were trying to advance from three directions in the city."Every area they didn't have a foothold in, they are trying to gain one now," Rami Abdelraham, head of the Observatory, told Reuters by telephone.Rebels from across Syria say they have sent some of their units into Qusair.Colonel Abdeljabbar al-Okaidi, the Aleppo-based regional leader of a moderate, internationally-backed Supreme Military Council said he and the Islamist brigade al-Tawheed had sent forces to the outskirts of the town to help the Qusair fighters.But activist Malek Ammar said no forces had arrived yet and insisted the rebels locked in Qusair were still on their own."No one is helping Qusair other than its own men," he said.
(This story has been corrected to change source of Hezbollah information to official, paragraph nine)
(Additional reporting by Laila Bassam; Editing by Sonya Hepinstall)
