Monday, July 29, 2013

POPE I DON'T JUDGE HOMOSEXUAL SODOMITE RAINBOW GROUPERS

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

THIS STORY COULD BE FALSE SO DON'T GET TO EXCITED.

RFID Chip Now Being Issued In Hanna, Wyoming As Part Of New “Obamacare” Plan

RFID Chip Technical Info
Here We Can See The Size And Shape Of The Exciting New RFID Chip
By Jane M. Agni
The “Obamacare” RFID chips are currently being given a test run on the proud and patriotic citizens of Hanna, Wyoming.
Over the last two weeks a special piece of legislation has been passed making it mandatory for anyone who receives welfare, or any other form of government assistance to be implanted with these new identification chips. Even select government employees and officials have been ordered to receive the new sub-dermal device, which is typically implanted in the fatty tissue of the individual’s buttock. Police officers, military, even garbage men will all be required to have the RFID chip by the end of next month or face termination from their jobs.
During the beta testing stage of this amazing new technological development, many news outlets have remained silent waiting to see how the trial pans out before reporting on the subject. National Report, always on the cutting edge, sent me on location to Hanna, Wyoming to speak with some of the towns folk and gather their opinions and experiences regarding their newly acquired RFID chips.
Tammy Josephine Laurence, a single mother of three who is currently accepting housing assistance got her chip implanted just hours before we had a chance to sit down and speak with her. She had the following to say:
RFID Chip Sketch
Preliminary Sketches Of What Later Came To Be Known As The RFID Chip
“Well, they said I better do this, or they was gonna cut the welfare. I’m a full time single mother. I got three young kids that need me at all hours and ain’t no man to help. I didn’t have no choice…”
When asked if the procedure was invasive she informed us that it was “a little like giving blood” and that she felt “tired after getting the implant” which apparently is a common but benign side effect.
I also spoke with Hanna, Wyoming’s Mayor Ted Howell, whose full support of the RFID chip made it mandatory for the citizens of his small community. Leading by example he was the first recipient of the RFID chip , having it implanted publicly at a recent town hall meeting. “This is change for a better, safer America” he said while undergoing the ten minute procedure. “With this scientific advancement, the terrorists do not stand a chance… USA will prevail…”
The ordinance has had some opposition, however, as several of the local churches have spoke out against the chips with protests. These fringe apocalyptic churches believe Obama to be the anti-Christ and claim the RFID chip is the Mark Of The Beast written about in their Book Of Revelations. They site the RFID chip’s supposed serial number of 131618 as corresponding with Revelations 13:16-18. Of course, rural superstitions ultimately have no sway when it comes to the progressive new America and their scripture laden outcries have largely been ignored.
This journalist embraces the new change, and even got her very own RFID chip before heading back to the National Report’s home offices. The surgery was quick, simple and more or less painless. I can barely tell I’ve been implanted at all. A sacrifice I’ve gladly made for my country’s national security and hope you will too.
- See more at: http://nationalreport.net/rfid-chip-now-being-issued-in-hanna-wyoming-as-part-of-new-obamacare-plan/#sthash.SpwXpgC3.dpuf

RFID Chip Now Being Issued In Hanna, Wyoming As Part Of New “Obamacare” Plan

RFID Chip Technical Info
Here We Can See The Size And Shape Of The Exciting New RFID Chip
By Jane M. Agni
The “Obamacare” RFID chips are currently being given a test run on the proud and patriotic citizens of Hanna, Wyoming.
Over the last two weeks a special piece of legislation has been passed making it mandatory for anyone who receives welfare, or any other form of government assistance to be implanted with these new identification chips. Even select government employees and officials have been ordered to receive the new sub-dermal device, which is typically implanted in the fatty tissue of the individual’s buttock. Police officers, military, even garbage men will all be required to have the RFID chip by the end of next month or face termination from their jobs.
During the beta testing stage of this amazing new technological development, many news outlets have remained silent waiting to see how the trial pans out before reporting on the subject. National Report, always on the cutting edge, sent me on location to Hanna, Wyoming to speak with some of the towns folk and gather their opinions and experiences regarding their newly acquired RFID chips.
Tammy Josephine Laurence, a single mother of three who is currently accepting housing assistance got her chip implanted just hours before we had a chance to sit down and speak with her. She had the following to say:
RFID Chip Sketch
Preliminary Sketches Of What Later Came To Be Known As The RFID Chip
“Well, they said I better do this, or they was gonna cut the welfare. I’m a full time single mother. I got three young kids that need me at all hours and ain’t no man to help. I didn’t have no choice…”
When asked if the procedure was invasive she informed us that it was “a little like giving blood” and that she felt “tired after getting the implant” which apparently is a common but benign side effect.
I also spoke with Hanna, Wyoming’s Mayor Ted Howell, whose full support of the RFID chip made it mandatory for the citizens of his small community. Leading by example he was the first recipient of the RFID chip , having it implanted publicly at a recent town hall meeting. “This is change for a better, safer America” he said while undergoing the ten minute procedure. “With this scientific advancement, the terrorists do not stand a chance… USA will prevail…”
The ordinance has had some opposition, however, as several of the local churches have spoke out against the chips with protests. These fringe apocalyptic churches believe Obama to be the anti-Christ and claim the RFID chip is the Mark Of The Beast written about in their Book Of Revelations. They site the RFID chip’s supposed serial number of 131618 as corresponding with Revelations 13:16-18. Of course, rural superstitions ultimately have no sway when it comes to the progressive new America and their scripture laden outcries have largely been ignored.
This journalist embraces the new change, and even got her very own RFID chip before heading back to the National Report’s home offices. The surgery was quick, simple and more or less painless. I can barely tell I’ve been implanted at all. A sacrifice I’ve gladly made for my country’s national security and hope you will too.
- See more at: http://nationalreport.net/rfid-chip-now-being-issued-in-hanna-wyoming-as-part-of-new-obamacare-plan/#sthash.9bzeY1w8.dpuf
http://nationalreport.net/rfid-chip-now-being-issued-in-hanna-wyoming-as-part-of-new-obamacare-plan/

 REVELATION 17:1-6
1 And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters:
2 With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication,(VATICAN IN POLITICS) and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.
3 So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
4 And the woman (FALSE CHURCH) was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour,(VATICAN COLOURS)(ANOTHER REASON WE KNOW THE FALSE POPE COMES FROM THE VATICAN) and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:
5 And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
6 And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.

POPE FRANCIS ON GAYS IN THE CHURCH-CTV NEWS VIDEO STORY
http://www.ctvnews.ca/world/pope-francis-on-priests-sexual-orientation-who-am-i-to-judge-1.1388129

BY THIS STORY-VIDEO-THE POPE SEEMS TO BE FOR HOMOSEXUALS.BY THE SOUNDS OF IT.HE MIGHT LET GAYS PREACH.HE WON'T JUDGE THEM.EVEN THOUGH THE BIBLE SAYS NO ACTIVE HOMOSEXUAL CAN PREACH IN THE CHURCH.AND THE POPE STILL WON'T LET WOMEN PREACH.EVEN THOUGH THE BIBLE SAYS WOMEN CAN PREACH IN THE CHURCH.WILL THESE COMMENTS BY POPE FRANCIS SPLIT THE CATHOLIC CHURCH.WE WILL SEE.

Excerpts from pope's first news conference


ABOARD THE PAPAL AIRCRAFT (AP) — Pope Francis gave a wide-ranging news conference on his trip back to Rome from Brazil, candidly responding to some of the touchiest issues facing the Vatican during an hour and 22-minute long chat with reporters. Here are highlights.
HE WON'T JUDGE PRIESTS FOR THEIR SEXUAL ORIENTATION: "If someone is gay and he searches for the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge?"
HE BENDS TO HIS BODYGUARDS ON PAPAL SECURITY: "I'd like to walk in the streets. But I know it's impossible."
NO IMMINENT TRIP TO HIS NATIVE ARGENTINA SINCE HE'S JUST RETURNED FROM BRAZIL: "A Latin American pope, his first trip to Latin America? Arrivederci."
CHURCH SHOULD BUILD BIGGER ROLE FOR WOMEN — THOUGH NOT AS PRIESTS: "We must go farther in the explicitness of the role and charisma of women living in the church."
THAT MYSTERIOUS BLACK BAG HE CARRIED ONTO THE PLANE HELD ONLY HIS RAZOR AND BOOKS: "The keys to the atomic bomb weren't in it."
HE'S TIRED AND HE HURT HIS SCIATIC NERVE USING A BAD CHAIR IN HIS FIRST MONTH AS POPE: "It was so painful. So painful! I wouldn't wish it in anyone."
HE LIKES HIS ADVISERS TO CHALLENGE HIM: "I like it when someone tells me 'I don't agree.' This is a true collaborator. When they say 'Oh, how great, how great, how great,'" that's not useful.
HE LOVES RETIRED POPE BENEDICT XVI LIKE A GRANDFATHER: "The last time there were two or three popes, they didn't talk among themselves and they fought over who was the true pope!" Having Benedict living in the Vatican "is like having a grandfather — a wise grandfather — living at home."

Pope says he won't judge gay priests


ABOARD THE PAPAL AIRCRAFT (AP) — Pope Francis reached out to gays on Monday, saying he wouldn't judge priests for their sexual orientation in a remarkably open and wide-ranging news conference as he returned from his first foreign trip."If someone is gay and he searches for the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge?" Francis asked.His predecessor, Pope Benedict XVI, signed a document in 2005 that said men with deep-rooted homosexual tendencies should not be priests. Francis was much more conciliatory, saying gay clergymen should be forgiven and their sins forgotten.Francis' remarks came Monday during a plane journey back to the Vatican from his first foreign trip in Brazil.He was funny and candid during his first news conference that lasted almost an hour and a half. He didn't dodge a single question, even thanking the journalist who raised allegations reported by an Italian newsmagazine that one of his trusted monsignors was involved in a scandalous gay tryst.Francis said he investigated and found nothing to back up the allegations.
Francis was asked about Italian media reports suggesting that a group within the church tried to blackmail fellow church officials with evidence of their homosexual activities. Italian media reported this year that the allegations contributed to Benedict's decision to resign.Stressing that Catholic social teaching that calls for homosexuals to be treated with dignity and not marginalized, Francis said it was something else entirely to conspire to use private information for blackmail or to exert pressure.Francis was responding to reports that a trusted aide was involved in an alleged gay tryst a decade ago. He said he investigated the allegations according to canon law and found nothing to back them up. But he took journalists to task for reporting on the matter, saying the allegations concerned matters of sin, not crimes like sexually abusing children.
And when someone sins and confesses, he said, God not only forgives but forgets."We don't have the right to not forget," he said.The directness of his comments suggested that he wanted to put the matter of the monsignor behind him as he sets about overhauling the Vatican bank and reforming the Holy See bureaucracy.Speaking in Italian with occasional lapses in his native Spanish, Francis dropped a few nuggets of other news:
— He said he was thinking of traveling to the Holy Land next year and is considering invitations from Sri Lanka and the Philippines as well.
— The planned Dec. 8 canonizations of Popes John Paul II and John XXIII will likely be postponed — perhaps until the weekend after Easter — because road conditions in December would be dangerously icy for Poles traveling to the ceremony by bus.
— And he solved the mystery that has been circulating ever since he was pictured boarding the plane to Rio carrying his own black bag, an unusual break from Vatican protocol."The keys to the atomic bomb weren't in it," Francis quipped. Rather, he said, the bag merely contained a razor, his breviary prayer book, his agenda and a book on St. Terese of Lisieux, to whom he is particularly devoted."It's normal" to carry a bag when traveling, he said. "We have to get use to this being normal, this normalcy of life," for a pope, he added.
Francis certainly showed a human, normal touch during his trip to Rio, charming the masses at World Youth Day with his decision to forgo typical Vatican security so he could to get close to his flock. Francis traveled without the bulletproof popemobile, using instead a simple Fiat or open-sided car."There wasn't a single incident in all of Rio de Janeiro in all of these days and all of this spontaneity," Francis said, responding to concerns raised after his car was swarmed by an adoring mob when it took a wrong turn and got stuck in traffic."I could be with the people, embrace them and greet them — without an armored car and instead with the security of trusting the people," he said.He acknowledged that there is always the chance that a "crazy" person could get to him. But he said he preferred taking that risk than submitting to the "craziness" of putting an armored wall between a shepherd and his flock.Francis' news conference was remarkable and unprecedented: Pope John Paul II used to have on-board press conferences, but he would move about the cabin, chatting with individual reporters so it was sometimes hit-or-miss to hear what he said and there were often time limits. After Benedict's maiden foreign voyage, the Vatican insisted that reporters submit questions in advance so the theologian pope could choose the three or four he wanted to answer and prepare his answers.For Francis, however, no question was off the table, no small thing given that he is known to distrust the mainstream media and had told journalists en route to Rio that he greatly disliked giving news conferences because he found them "tiresome."Francis spoke lovingly of his predecessor, Benedict XVI, saying that having him living in the Vatican "is like having a grandfather, a wise grandfather, living at home." He said he regularly asks Benedict for advice, but dismissed suggestions that the German pontiff was exerting any influence on his papacy.On the contrary, Francis said he had tried to encourage Benedict to participate more in public functions at the Vatican and receive guests, but that he was "a man of prudence."In one of his most important speeches delivered in Rio, Francis described the church in feminine terms, saying it would be "sterile" without women. Asked what role he foresaw, he said the church must develop a more profound role for women in the church, though he said "the door is closed" to ordaining women to the priesthood.
He was less charitable with the Vatican accountant, Monsignor Nunzio Scarano, who has been jailed on accusations he plotted to smuggle €20 million ($26 million) from Switzerland to Italy and is also accused by Italian prosecutors of using his Vatican bank account to launder money.Francis said while "there are saints" in the Vatican bureaucracy, Scarano wasn't among them.The Vatican bank, known as the Institute for Religious Works, has been a focus of Francis' reform efforts, and he has named a commission of inquiry to look into its activities amid accusations from Italian prosecutors that it has been used as an offshore tax haven to launder money.Asked if closing the bank was a possibility, Francis said: "I don't know how this story will end."
"But the characteristics of the IOR — whether it's a bank, an aid fund or whatever it is — are transparency and honesty."___Follow Nicole Winfield at www.twitter.com/nwinfield

07/28/2013 VATICAN INSIDER

Jerusalem's Bishop Shomali: " Francis is truly the Pope of the poor"

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Bishop Shomali
Bishop Shomali

Jerusalem’s auxiliary bishop tells how WYD has helped young Catholics from the Holy Land, and discusses the possibility of the Pope’s visit there

Gerard O'Connell Rio de Janiero  
 
The auxiliary bishop of the Latin Patriarchate in Jerusalem, William Shomali, is in Rio for the World Youth Day (WYD) together with some priests and 130 young people from the Holy Land: 85 from Galilee, 25 from Jerusalem and Ramallah.  I spoke to him, July 27, and asked for his impressions of WYD and the possibility that Pope Francis may visit the Holy Land in 2014
 
What do the young people that came with you think of WYD?
They’re so very happy to be here, and feel passionately about this experience.  In the catechetical sessions they mostly met other young Arab Catholics from Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon and the Holy Land.  They don’t usually have the opportunity to meet them because of the political situation. As you know, young Catholics in the Holy Land can’t normally meet those from other Arab countries; even those from Galilee cannot normally meet those from Jerusalem and Ramallah. But all this was possible in Rio, and it made them very happy.  They’ve made new friends, and that’s good for the future.Indeed, all this is the fulfilment of what Pope Francis said today, when he encouraged dialogue and encounter.Furthermore, our young people met young Catholics from Brazil and Argentina, and other countries. They understood what the Catholicity of the Church means.  It’s something that will leave a lasting impression on them.
 
What’s your own impression of WYD?
Very good indeed!  It’s been very well prepared by priests and lay people working together.  Just think of how well and creatively the Way of the Cross was prepared last night. The professional actors, who participated, did so free of charge. The singing and music was creative and modern, and showed how well the young Brazilian Church is inculturating the Gospel.Before WYD, I visited the Church in Sao Paolo, Salvador and Rio, and saw a young vibrant Church, with many people – including so many young, attending Sunday mass.  You wouldn’t see much of this in Europe today. I also met missionaries from Spain, Italy and France and understood that while in the past the European Churches helped the Church in Brazil, now, and increasingly in the future, the Brazilian Church will be helping Europe.  Even in the Holy Land we have Brazilian missionaries. We have, for example, a charismatic group, with their music and guitars, working in a home for the elderly.  
 
You met Pope Francis briefly in the cathedral this morning, what’s your impression of him?
 
I see that Francis is as humble as we had expected him to be.  He’s truly ‘the Pope of the Poor’, and he really deserves that name. Not only does he love the poor, the poor people also love him very much as we saw clearly when he visited the ‘favela’. He considers the poor as the image of Christ himself.  And when he gave his homily in the cathedral this morning, I felt he was speaking to me personally.
 
Do you expect him to come to the Holy Land next year?
I hope he will come, I feel sure he will come. Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople invited him to Jerusalem for January 2014 to celebrate the anniversary of the historic meeting of Patriarch Athenagoras with Paul VI in the Holy City in 1964.  Francis said he would come to the Holy Land, but didn’t say when.  January is a cold month in Jerusalem, but whenever he decides to come he is most welcome.  We hope he’ll give us six months’ advance notice, so we can prepare well. We’d like him to come either before or after Easter; that would be the best time for us, and the weather should be nice.
 
How is Pope Francis being received in the Holy Land and in the Middle East by followers of the other monotheistic religions?
So far so good.  He’s well accepted by both Jews and Muslims; they like his simple, humble approach. The Jews appreciate him from his relations with them in Buenos Aires.  The Muslims are also happy with him.  Francis is prudent; he advocates dialogue and encounter, and the Muslims like that. I believe that with his personal, humble approach he will continue to be appreciated.

07/28/2013 VATICAN INSIDER

Francis' message to CELAM: Bishops and priests should not "infantalize" lay faithful

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The Pope with some Bishops of CELAM
The Pope with some Bishops of CELAM

In his speech to the Coordinating Committee of CELAM, the Pope talked about the temptation of clericalism and asked pastors to be poor and merciful

ANdrea Tornielli in Rio de Janeiro Francis concluded his trip to Brazil with another wide-ranging speech to the coordinating committee of the Latin American Episcopal Council (CELAM). But Francis’ words will most certainly resonate beyond the Latin American continent.
The Pope asked bishops to give a missionary slant to the daily activities of local Churches, explaining that the “change of structures” (from obsolete ones to new ones) will not be the result of reviewing an organizational flow chart” but will “result from the very dynamics of mission.” Francis recalled that the general assembly of Latin American bishops at Aparecida in 2007 had presented “pastoral conversion” as a “necessity”. The Pope then asked bishops to reflect on some questions with regard to the current state of the Church: “Do we see to it that our work, and that of our priests, is more pastoral than administrative? Who primarily benefits from our efforts, the Church as an organization or the People of God as a whole?”The questions then focused specifically on the laity and their role in the Church: “In practice, do we make the lay faithful sharers in the Mission?” As pastors, bishops and priests are we conscious and convinced of the mission of the lay faithful and do we give them the freedom to continue discerning, in a way befitting their growth as disciples, the mission which the Lord has entrusted to them? Do we support them and accompany them, overcoming the temptation to manipulate them or infantilize them?” His words portray the picture of the Church’s current situation in a number of countries, European ones too.

 
Speaking of the importance of the Church engaging in dialogue with the world around it, Francis referred to what was said at the Second Vatican Council to explain the basis of dialogue with contemporary society: “
The joys and hopes, the grief and anguish of the people of our time, especially of those who are poor or afflicted, are the joys and hopes, the grief and anguish of the followers of Christ as well.” The Church needs to be aware of the varied “scenarios and the areopagi involved.” “If we remain within the parameters of our “traditional culture” which was essentially rural, we will end up nullifying the power of the Holy Spirit. God is everywhere: we have to know how to find him in order to be able to proclaim him in the language of each and every culture; every reality, every language, has its own rhythm.”Francis then spoke of the “temptations” that steer people away from being missionaries. The first is making the message of the Gospel an ideology. The Pope listed four ways of doing this: “sociological reductionism” which “involves an interpretative claim based on a hermeneutics drawn from the social sciences … from market liberalism to Marxist categorization”; psychologising “based on an elitist hermeneutics which ultimately reduces the “encounter with Jesus Christ” and its development to a process of growing self-awareness”; the Gnostic solution “ordinarily found in elite groups offering a higher spirituality, generally disembodied. Its adherents are generally known as “enlightened Catholics”. Finally the Pope mentioned the Pelagian solution which “appears as a form of restorationism.” “In dealing with the Church’s problems, a purely disciplinary solution is sought, through the restoration of outdated manners and forms which, even on the cultural level, are no longer meaningful. In Latin America it is usually to be found in small groups, in some new religious congregations, in tendencies to doctrinal or disciplinary “safety”.”Francis referred to two more temptations: “functionalism” and “clericalism”. The “functionalist approach has no room for mystery; it aims at efficiency” “It reduces the reality of the Church to the structure of an NGO. What counts are quantifiable results and statistics. The Church ends up being run like any other business organization. Clericalism, on the other hand, “has to do with a sinful complicity: the priest clericalizes the lay person and the lay person kindly asks to be clericalized, because deep down it is easier ... Clericalism explains, in great part, the lack of maturity and Christian freedom in a good part of the Latin American laity.” Francis pointed to the autonomy of the laity as “on the whole is a healthy thing, basically expressed through popular piety.” Clericalism is being overcome thanks to bible study groups and ecclesial basic communities.After warning against a “utopian” vision of the future or a “restorationist” vision of the past, the Pope explained that “God is real and he shows himself in the “today”.” When the Church “makes herself a “centre”, she becomes merely functional, and slowly but surely turns into a kind of NGO. The Church then claims to have a light of her own … She becomes increasingly self-referential and loses her need to be missionary.” She “ends up being an administrator; from being a servant, she becomes an “inspector”.” “There are pastoral plans designed with such a dose of distance that they are incapable of sparking an encounter ... [They] give priority to principles, forms of conduct, organizational procedures … and clearly lack nearness, tenderness, a warm touch. They do not take into account the “revolution of tenderness” brought by the incarnation of the Word.” The Pope sees homilies as a “touchstone for measuring whether a pastoral plan embodies nearness and a capacity for encounter.” “Do we imitate the example of our Lord, who spoke “as one with authority”, or are they simply moralizing, detached, abstract?” the Pope asked.The Pope ended his speech to CELAM’s coordinating committee, with a reference to his speech to Nuncios last June. He stressed that “bishops must be pastors, close to the people.” They must be “patient and merciful.” They must “love poverty, both interior poverty and exterior poverty, as simplicity and austerity of life” and must be “men who do not think and behave like “princes”” or that are “ambitious."

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)

EU settles trade dispute with China, warns member states

Today @ 14:48 JULY 29,13
By Honor Mahony

BRUSSELS - The EU has defended a deal with China over solar panel imports amid criticism it has caved into Bejing's demands.Karel De Gucht, EU trade commissioner, Monday (29 July) announced that an "amicable solution" had been found between EU and Chinese officials after the commission last month imposed anti-dumping tariffs on Chinese solar panels.The tariffs - at 11.8 percent - were supposed to leap to 47.6 percent by 6 August if the two sides did on agree on a compromise that would see the price of solar panels from China raised.Under the deal, reached Saturday and due to stay in place until the end of 2015, Chinese companies have agreed that a minimum price be set for their products.The agreement applies to solar panels that produce up to seven gigawatts a year - about 70 percent of the market. Any imports above that ceiling will still be subject to the 47.6 percent tariffs.The price agreement has already seen some strong criticism.ProSun, representing the European solar panel industry, said it plans to take legal action saying the agreement is against EU law."A minimum price of between 55 and 57 euro cents would lie exactly at the level of the current dumping price for Chinese modules," it said.But the commissioner responded by saying he thought they had "no case" and the "market situation" justified the deal.He noted that the anti-dumping action taken in June was to "remove an injury" but that the onus was on European solar panel companies to make themselves "competitive."Environment group WWF - with an eye on EU commitments to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions - welcomed the agreement.“A trade war between both regions on clean renewable energy technologies is the last thing the world needed," it said in a statement.De Gucht said he hoped the negotiations would "set the tone" for other brewing trade disputes with China, which is exploring European wine and polysilicon exports.

No bilateral trade discussion please

Meanwhile, he also indicated that member states shoud not undermine the commission when it comes to trade issues - with Germany leading public opposition to imposing tariffs."I believe that if everybody stays within their role then it can work. That also applies to the member states, they should better stay with their role.""Staying in their role means they should not engage in bilateral discussions, be it with China or anybody else."At the end of May, days before the commission was due to decide on tariffs, German chancellor Angela Merkel in a press conference with her Chinese counterpart publicly pledged to make sure there are "no permanent import duties."

Ashton visits Egypt amid rising tensions

Today @ 09:17 JULY 29,13
By Honor Mahony
BRUSSELS - EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton is in Egypt Monday (29 July) amid high tension following the latest violence which has left scores dead.
Ashton, who was also in the country earlier this month, said ahead of her visit that she would urge a "fully inclusive transition process, taking in all political groups, including the Muslim Brotherhood.""The EU will continue to stand by the Egyptian people and support their democratic aspirations," she said.Her visit comes just two days after around 70 supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood, the party of the deposed Mohamed Morsi, were shot dead by security forces.And tensions are set to rise further still on Monday.Reuters reported that Morsi supporters have begun marching towards military headquarters in Cairo, in defiance of a warning by the army to stay away from military facilities.The international community has been watching the events in Egypt with increasing nervousness since the army removed Morsi, the country's first free elected president, from power on 3 July.The EU's first reaction to the army's move was muted but it has become increasingly vocal about the need to include the Muslim Brotherhood in negotiations about the future of the country.But it has been accused of double standards by Turkey for not coming out with a stronger reactions to the shooting of protestors."Those who were silent when Egypt's national will was massacred are silent again when people are massacred. What happened to the EU (and) European values, where are those who go around giving lessons in democracy?" Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Sunday.
Erdogan drew comparisons with the EU's strong criticism of Ankara's recent crackdown on anti-government protestors.Ashton is due to meet the of the Egyptian armed forces, General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, the country's interim president, Adli Mansour, and officials from the Brotherhood's political wing.The military, for its part, has said it does not want to hold onto power but is planning to oversee a transition to civilian rule with a roadmap to parliamentary elections in about six months time.However, analysts suggest that the increasingly public role of Sisi - at the weekend he urged supporters to come out onto the streets as a way of legitimising his power - throws these state intentions into doubt.The West views Egypt as a bridge between the Middle East and Africa. The EU has earmarked some €5 billion in economic aid for the country in the coming years and has given around €1 billion in aid to Egypt from 2007 onwards.

EARTHQUAKES

ISAIAH 42:15
15  I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools.

MATTHEW 24:7-8
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.

MARK 13:8
8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:(ETHNIC GROUP AGAINST ETHNIC GROUP) and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.

LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places,(DIFFERNT PLACES AT THE SAME TIME) and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.

1 Day, Magnitude 2.5+ Worldwide

36 earthquakes - DownloadUpdated: 2013-07-29 09:55:30 UTC-04:00Showing event times using Local System Time (UTC-04:00)
  1. 4.4 82km SSE of Korsakov, Russia 2013-07-29 06:23:35 UTC-04:00 337.7 km
  2. 2.7 78km NNW of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands 2013-07-29 05:59:05 UTC-04:00 17.0 km
  3. 2.8 81km NNW of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands 2013-07-29 05:57:55 UTC-04:00 19.0 km
  4. 3.5 47km SSE of Cantwell, Alaska 2013-07-29 05:40:30 UTC-04:00 98.1 km
  5. 4.6 175km NW of Saumlaki, Indonesia 2013-07-29 04:21:31 UTC-04:00 87.8 km
  6. 5.1 Fiji region 2013-07-29 04:12:27 UTC-04:00 10.0 km
  7. 5.0 44km SSW of Jarm, Afghanistan 2013-07-29 04:08:00 UTC-04:00 193.1 km
  8. 4.7 Central East Pacific Rise 2013-07-29 01:49:35 UTC-04:00 10.0 km
  9. 3.3 121km NNW of Road Town, British Virgin Islands 2013-07-29 01:34:50 UTC-04:00 35.0 km
  10. 2.5 81km SSE of Adak, Alaska 2013-07-29 01:21:56 UTC-04:00 25.8 km
  11. 2.5 60km NNE of Isabela, Puerto Rico 2013-07-29 01:19:35 UTC-04:00 58.0 km
  12. 4.4 55km N of Amberley, New Zealand 2013-07-29 00:37:49 UTC-04:00 9.0 km
  13. 2.7 7km ESE of Mammoth Lakes, California 2013-07-29 00:02:54 UTC-04:00 8.5 km
  14. 2.5 67km NNE of Larsen Bay, Alaska 2013-07-28 23:44:46 UTC-04:00 56.2 km
  15. 4.6 287km N of Bamboo Flat, India 2013-07-28 22:26:32 UTC-04:00 28.5 km
  16. 3.1 44km N of Semisopochnoi Island, Alaska 2013-07-28 22:06:17 UTC-04:00 14.3 km
  17. 4.6 103km SW of Banda Aceh, Indonesia 2013-07-28 21:43:33 UTC-04:00 55.0 km
  18. 4.5 69km W of Minas de Marcona, Peru 2013-07-28 21:42:32 UTC-04:00 34.2 km
  19. 4.3 264km SE of Lambasa, Fiji 2013-07-28 19:14:19 UTC-04:00 586.8 km
  20. 4.3 268km SE of Lambasa, Fiji 2013-07-28 18:37:56 UTC-04:00 597.4 km
  21. 2.5 208km SE of Unalaska, Alaska 2013-07-28 18:24:44 UTC-04:00 7.0 km
  22. 2.9 4km NW of The Geysers, California 2013-07-28 16:55:17 UTC-04:00 0.4 km
  23. 3.0 5km WSW of Willow, Alaska 2013-07-28 16:51:25 UTC-04:00 34.4 km
  24. 5.2 103km NNW of Ceva-i-Ra, Fiji 2013-07-28 16:16:29 UTC-04:00 67.9

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