EU SHOULD CHANGE TONE WHEN TALKING WITH THE WORLD

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

WORLD POWERS IN THE LAST DAYS
CHINA MILITARY PARADE(KING OF THE EAST)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqSmLOdRE4c
RUSSIA ARMY PARADE(KING OF THE NORTH)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReGqS3TDYRM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWn3T5XIbNk&feature=related
EGYPT ARMY PARADE(KING OF THE SOUTH)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lt_KT4irRTM&feature=related
EUROPEAN UNION MILITARY PARADE(KING OF THE WEST)(NOT THE USA)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3NEyheTDyo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzLjhsRrZYw&feature=fvw
ISRAEL MILITARY-GUARENTEED BY EU TO SECURE THEM THE BIBLE SAYS(2 MAIN ENDTIME PLAYERS)(NEXT TO GOD HIMSELF FULFILLING THE PROPHECIES ON EARTH)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04TDlvIRIMY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhdalQdtzfY&feature=related
http://euradcom.org/

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 leaders should change tone when talking to rest of the world

22.10.13 @ 18:05-EUOBSERVER

By Mai’a Cross and Jan Melissen

BRUSSELS - European Commission President José Manuel Barroso was right. Had the European Union instead of the United States fallen into partial government shutdown, the world would not have hesitated to use this as an opportunity to berate Europe and its influence as a global leader.The trade in caricatures about the EU is a favourite past time. World leaders stand ready to offer free advice to European governments and institutions that they see as having no capacity to lead.Chinese pundits boast publicly that Beijing has a system of selecting rather than electing capable leaders that is far superior to Western democracy. Even the likes of President Cristina Kirchner from Argentina have joined the ranks of those offering lessons in leadership.More than ever, the time is ripe for Europe to take its external image more seriously. This can be done through a greater emphasis on public diplomacy and a more positive leadership style in Europe. Damage to Europe’s reputation in other parts of the world goes beyond critical images of European leaders with no capacity to lead, and over-burdened bureaucracies suffering from in-group stereotypes. Emerging powers are starting to challenge Europe in areas of its traditional soft power, where the EU is still going strong.The ultramodern African Union headquarters in Addis Ababa, funded and built by China, gives a powerful diplomatic signal about a changing world. Russia’s role in talking down the US over Syria is another example. Europeans realize that Brazilians, Indonesians, Indians and others often know too little about what the EU is all about, but they erroneously think this is merely about a lack of information.They should worry more that ‘Europe’ is still largely lecturing previous colonies rather than listening to them as rising powers with their eyes set on the future.No week goes by without European think tanks debating the impact of the ‘rise of the rest’, but this has not translated into an understanding on the part of governments that there is an urgent job to be done when it comes to Europe’s public diplomacy.While the world tries to make sense of Europe’s struggles during times of crisis, 90 percent of the EU communication budget is still being spent on outreach to the EU’s own 28 member states. There are good reasons to ‘sell’ Europe at home, but are the overall priorities right? Worse than foreign misperception, though, is how Europeans judge themselves.

Self-defeating and myopic

There is a strong tendency for political leaders to be too critical of what they are trying to achieve through European integration. They publically create a prevailing image of self-doubt. People in other parts of the world with different political systems are often perplexed by such self-deprecation. They are not used to this kind of self-defeating, myopic leadership style.When faced with a crisis – such as disagreement over Iraq in 2003, the failure of the Constitutional Treaty in 2005, or more recently, the Eurozone crisis – European leaders often project a lack of resilience and self-confidence.Sometimes circumstances are exceptional. But European leaders need to understand the importance of perception, especially during crises. If this is not understood not only does the EU’s image suffer, but also the reputation of its component parts. States, regions, and cities may see their global business interests harmed.One irony of the EU’s early 21st century predicament is that the international peace associated with integration - Europe’s greatest source of soft power - is losing its previous appeal, even while political leaders around the world discretely admire it.
The economic crisis has complicated matters by spawning a cultural rivalry between leading EU members Germany, Britain, France. ‘Beggar thy neighbour’ economic competition between the states of Europe is undermining more enlightened practices of communication with foreign publics in favour of more simplistic promotional practices meant to target trade and investment.Rightly or wrongly, this even creates an impression that Europe lacks progress when it comes to its communication with the rest of the world.

Not everything is bleak

Not everything is bleak. Europe can still pull itself together. With its highly-active populations, assertive regions, diverse member states, activist town halls, and attractive cities, Europe remains a mosaic of collective projection capacity without equal in the world.Future public diplomacy should build on Europe’s evident strengths at the sub-national level, closer to civil society. European policy-makers must also wake up to the fact that maintaining the traditional separation of domestic and external communication spheres is completely out of touch with the reality of vast information flows that simply ignore borders.Recurring criticism of EU foreign policy chief Lady Ashton has compounded difficulties for Europe’s diplomatic service to fight Europe’s negative image in the world. It is time to start trusting EU diplomats to develop new public diplomacy traditions that are also in the interests of states.The EU External Action Service could be instrumental in moving away from the EU’s greatest shortcoming in public diplomacy: its tendency towards talking at others. Beyond such one-way ‘infopolitik’, internal image and external image are of course related.
When others start talking about Europe in a more positive light, Europeans themselves may even start believing that there is some truth to what they say.Mai’a Cross and Jan Melissen are senior research fellows at ARENA Centre for European Studies in Oslo and the Netherlands Institute of International Relations ‘Clingendael’ in The Hague. They co-authored the Clingendael Policy Brief ‘Communicating Europe: At Home in the World’, and they co-edited the forthcoming 'European Public Diplomacy: Soft Power at Work' (Palgrave Macmillan).

Germany budging on banking union

Today @ 17:47-OCT 23,13-EUOBSERVER

By Valentina Pop

Berlin - After having opposed for months a so-called resolution mechanism for failing eurozone banks, Germany is budging on the issue and wants a deal by the end of the year.The European Commission proposal for an authority having the power to tell banks to shut down or to draw money from shareholders, creditors and ultimately taxpayers had been flatly rejected by the German government earlier this year.
But at an EU summit on Thursday-Friday (24-25 October) in Brussels, Chancellor Angela Merkel is set to have a "constructive" stance on the matter and seek a deal among member states by the end of the year, a senior German official said on the eve of the meeting.The German chancellery and the finance ministry are already "working on solutions" on the most controversial points of the proposal, the official said.Under a possible compromise, the Single Resolution Mechanism (SRM) would only extend over the 130 largest banks in the eurozone and national parliaments would have to approve any use of public money in helping out troubled banks - a constitutional requirement in Germany.Also key to German approval is a clear pecking order of shareholders and creditors who have to step in when a bank is wound down."The commission has proposed a fund to be set up from the banks' own contributions, but it will take 10-15 years until it will be available, the official said.This means that in the next 3-5 years we will not have a sufficiently funded pot. Instead, we will have again and again the question of using public money. And the European Commission has not included an answer to this question in its proposal."Limiting the SRM to the 130 largest banks would be the preferred German option because it would create a "certain symmetry" to the single banking supervisor being currently set up within the European Central Bank (ECB), whose remit is also on these big banks only.On Wednesday, the ECB published its plan on how it will assess the balance sheets of these banks - a precondition for it to take on the supervisory role.Key to this exercise is for banks to have eight percent capital - a higher-than expected requirement.If capital shortfalls are identified, banks will be required to make up for them, the ECB said. Draghi has said a "public backstop" must also be available for this exercise.A provisional list of banks to be reviewed includes 24 German lenders - including six of the Landesbanken that were bailed out in 2008. French, Italian, Dutch, Spanish, Irish, Portuguese, Cypriot and Greek banks are also on the list.Shares in eurozone banks fell by 2.5 percent on Wednesday, reflecting investors' concerns that these tests will pressure banks to tighten their lending. Spain's Bankia falling by five percent on the markets and Germany's Commerzbank by three percent.The German financial supervisor Bafin said the country's banks were "already intensively preparing for the comprehensive assessment."

EU to relaunch membership talks with Turkey

Today @ 09:21-OCT 23,13-EUOBSERVER

By Nikolaj Nielsen

BRUSSELS - The stalled EU membership talks with Turkey are set for relaunch after member states agreed accession negotiations would recommence on 5 November.“After more than a three-year break, negotiations are regaining momentum, and I hope to see steady and speedy progress,” Linas Antanas Linkevicius, Lithuania’s minister of foreign affairs, said Tuesday (22 October).Linkevicius said the three-year hiatus was due to a lack of agreement among member states.Talks were initially scheduled for June but were postponed following a violent police crackdown on anti-government protests that kicked off in Istanbul’s Gezi Park in summer before rapidly spreading to other cities.Over 3,000 were arrested. Six people died, including one police officer, while thousands of others were injured, some severely.Turkey’s accession negotiations started in 2005, although its EU candidate status was granted back in 1999.Some 35 individual chapters covering different policy aspects must be finalised before full membership.So far, 13 have been opened, but progress has been slowed by member state objections, largely due to Turkey’s frozen conflict with EU member state Cyprus.Only one chapter, on science and research, has been provisionally closed.
The stand-off was further complicated when Turkey temporarily froze relations with the Presidency of the Council of the EU in the second half of 2012 because Cyprus took the presidency helm.The new thaw in relations means ministers in November will focus on a chapter dealing with regional policy and structural instruments with Turkey.A European Commission progress report, released last week, noted that Turkey has moved forward on regional policy.It noted that the government said it wants to step up democratic and political reforms.But major challenges remain when it comes to human rights.The report says outstanding issues remain over “gender equality, including access to education and the labour market, political representation, combatting violence against women and early and forced marriages.”The EU earmarked over €900 million in funds for 2013 alone to help Turkey in its reforms.The two sides exchanged some €123 billion in bilateral trade in 2012.

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.

REVELATION 11:11-14
11 And after three days and an half the spirit of life from God entered into them, and they stood upon their feet; and great fear fell upon them which saw them.
12 And they(ELIJSH-MOSES) heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them, Come up hither.(REV 4:1 WE KNOW IS THE RAPTURE FOR SURE) And they ascended up to heaven in a cloud; and their enemies beheld them.(RAPTURED)
13 And the same hour was there a great earthquake, and the tenth part of the city fell, and in the earthquake were slain of men seven thousand: and the remnant were affrighted, and gave glory to the God of heaven.
14 The second woe is past; and, behold, the third woe cometh quickly.

REVELATION 16:18-20
18 And there were voices, and thunders, and lightnings; and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake, and so great.
19 And the great city (JERUSALEM) was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell: and great Babylon came in remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath.
20 And every island fled away, and the mountains were not found.

Minor earthquakes strike near Eilat

After series of northern temblors, two 3.3-magnitude tremors hit, but are barely felt, near southern Israel’s Red Sea tourism city

By Times of Israel staff October 23, 2013, 6:41 pm 00The Times of Israel

A minor earthquake hit the Eilat port area Wednesday afternoon, causing no damage or casualties.Tremors were felt in the Egyptian border city of Taba, but weren’t felt as strongly in the neighboring Israeli city.

The earthquake, measuring 3.3 on the Richter scale, was preceded by another similar-sized quake in the Red Sea, according to Israel Radio.The quakes were the first to be felt in the south of Israel, following a series of five minor quakes in six days — the last of them on Tuesday — felt in the north.In the midst of that succession of minor earthquakes, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday convened a consultation with key ministers to discuss national preparedness, and ordered a “refreshing” of procedures for coping with a major quake. The IDF’s Home Front Command then reissued instructions for dealing with a major temblor.“Don’t think of an earthquake as unbeatable — experience accumulated throughout the world proves that appropriate preparation and proper action in time of earthquake can save lives,” read the Home Front Command guide. Though it is impossible to predict when, “there is no question that an earthquake will hit Israel,” the guide stated.Israel’s last major earthquake shook the region in 1927 — a 6.2-magnitude quake that killed 500 and injured another 700. An earthquake in 1837 left as many as 5,000 people dead. Major earthquakes strike Israel once every 80 years or so, meaning the country may be due for a serious natural disaster.

1 Day, Magnitude 2.5+ Worldwide

24 earthquakes - DownloadUpdated: 2013-10-23 17:03:20 UTC-04:00Showing event times using Local System Time (UTC-04:00)24 earthquakes in map area

1. 2.5 23km SE of Mammoth Lakes, California 2013-10-23 14:38:30 UTC-04:00 8.2 km
2. 3.2 23km SSE of Mammoth Lakes, California 2013-10-23 13:40:03 UTC-04:00 8.5 km
3. 2.8 2km NE of Levittown, Puerto Rico 2013-10-23 13:39:49 UTC-04:00 95.0 km
4. 3.1 23km SSE of Mammoth Lakes, California 2013-10-23 13:24:41 UTC-04:00 7.5 km
5. 3.3 23km SSE of Mammoth Lakes, California 2013-10-23 13:19:32 UTC-04:00 7.7 km
6. 5.0 297km SW of Ndoi Island, Fiji 2013-10-23 12:32:38 UTC-04:00 564.0 km
7. 4.3 24km SSE of Fengcheng, China 2013-10-23 12:17:13 UTC-04:00 15.0 km
8. 4.5 5km SSE of Kardamas, Greece 2013-10-23 11:38:33 UTC-04:00 45.0 km
9. 4.4 209km SSW of Sagres, Portugal 2013-10-23 09:57:27 UTC-04:00 38.5 km
10. 4.4 49km SE of Silifke, Turkey 2013-10-23 08:24:24 UTC-04:00 10.0 km
11. 4.4 141km ESE of Iquique, Chile 2013-10-23 05:32:38 UTC-04:00 100.0 km
12. 5.5 285km SW of Vaini, Tonga 2013-10-23 04:23:29 UTC-04:00 155.4 km
13. 3.9 60km S of Cantwell, Alaska 2013-10-23 03:38:21 UTC-04:00 65.1 km
14. 2.9 16km N of Hatillo, Puerto Rico 2013-10-23 02:40:06 UTC-04:00 77.0 km
15. 2.7 71km N of Tierras Nuevas Poniente, Puerto Rico 2013-10-23 02:15:50 UTC-04:00 12.0 km
16. 4.6 137km NE of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy, Russia 2013-10-23 00:19:34 UTC-04:00 
17. 3.1 8km WSW of Alberto Oviedo Mota, Mexico 2013-10-23 00:17:09 UTC-04:00 15.0 km
18. 2.5 6km NW of Aguas Buenas, Puerto Rico 2013-10-22 22:41:45 UTC-04:00 58.0 km
19. 3.0 187km SE of Akutan, Alaska 2013-10-22 21:43:09 UTC-04:00 46.7 km
20. 3.0 45km NNW of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands 2013-10-22 20:08:20 UTC-04:00 28.0
21. 2.9 14km NE of Willow, Alaska 2013-10-22 19:45:55 UTC-04:00 18.1 km
22. 3.8 33km WNW of Healy, Alaska 2013-10-22 18:47:14 UTC-04:00 142.4 km
23. 2.8 24km ENE of Soledad, California 2013-10-22 17:48:49 UTC-04:00 8.7 km
24. 5.4 56km W of Panguna, Papua New Guinea 2013-10-22 17:15:51 UTC-04:00 50.0 km 

10/22/2013 VATICAN INSIDER

Müller rejects remarriage permitted in the Orthodox Church

Gerhard Ludwig Muller

The guardian of Catholic orthodoxy talks about an issue that will be discussed at the next Synod, stating that "marriages nowadays are probably invalid more often than they were previously"

andrea tornielli rome The Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Archbishop Gerhard Ludwig Müller, has written an article on remarried divorcees and whether they should be allowed to take communion. The lengthy and thoroughly researched article was published by Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano. It is a summary of various documents and the Church’s stance regarding the issue, starting with the Bible.The article deals with one of the issues that will be discussed at the extraordinary Synod on October 2014 and sends out two key messages: The first is a confirmed intention to look more closely at marriage annulment: Benedict XVI and Francis have said on many occasions that a lack of faith can also make a marriage null.Regarding this, Müller said: “Today’s mentality is largely opposed to the Christian understanding of marriage, with regard to its indissolubility and its openness to children.  Because many Christians are influenced by this, marriages nowadays are probably invalid more often than they were previously, because there is a lack of desire for marriage in accordance with Catholic teaching, and there is too little socialization within an environment of faith.  Therefore assessment of the validity of marriage is important and can help to solve problems.”The second message the article sends out is to do with the Eastern tradition of blessing second marriages after a period of penitence. On the flight back from Rio, Francis said: "With reference to the problem of Communion for people in a second marriage - because the divorced can take Communion, that's not a problem - but when they're in a second marriage, they can't. I believe that it's necessary to look at it within the totality of the pastoral care of marriage. And that's why it's a problem. But also - in parentheses - the Orthodox have a different practice. They follow the theology of economy, as they call it, and give a second chance, they allow it. But I think this problem - close parentheses - must be studied within the framework of the pastoral care of marriage … We are on the path towards a deeper pastoral care for marriage.”Here Pope Francis only refers to the practices of the Orthodox Church briefly in brackets, as Cardinal Roger Etchegaray had spoken in detail about this during a Consistory.But Müller’s tone appears negative in the article published in L’Osservatore Romano:  “In the Orthodox Churches today, there are a great many grounds for divorce, which are mostly justified in terms of oikonomia, or pastoral leniency in difficult individual cases, and they open the path to a second or third marriage marked by a penitential character.  This practice cannot be reconciled with God’s will, as expressed unambiguously in Jesus’ sayings about the indissolubility of marriage.  But it represents an ecumenical problem that is not to be underestimated.”“In the West, the Gregorian reform countered these liberalizing tendencies and gave fresh impetus to the original understanding of Scripture and the Fathers.  The Catholic Church defended the absolute indissolubility of marriage even at the cost of great sacrifice and suffering.  The schism of a “Church of England” detached from the Successor of Peter came about not because of doctrinal differences, but because the Pope, out of obedience to the sayings of Jesus, could not accommodate the demands of King Henry VIII for the dissolution of his marriage,” The Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith went on to say.

10/22/2013 VATICAN INSIDER

Cardinal Dolan passes on the baton

Timothy Dolan

Between 11 and 14 November the US Catholic Bishops’ Conference will elect its next president from a list of ten candidates

Roberta Leone Rome The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) has announced that its members will be voting for their new president and vice president at their annual autumn General Assembly, which will run from 11 to 14 November. The USCCB has published a list of the ten candidates nominated by the bishops. Two of these ten candidates will be elected president and vice president respectively, replacing the Archbishop of New York, Cardinal Timothy Dolan and the Archbishop of Louisville, Joseph E. Kurtz.The candidates are: Archbishop Gregory M. Aymond of New Orleans, Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, OFM Cap., of Philadelphia, Bishop Blase J. Cupich of Spokane, of Washington, Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo of Galveston-Houston, Archbishop José H. Gomez of Los Angeles , Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz of Louisville, Kentucky, Archbishop William E. Lori of Baltimore, Archbishop Dennis M. Schnurr of Cincinnati, Archbishop Allen H. Vigneron of Detroit and Archbishop Thomas G. Wenski of Miami.“USCCB by-laws provide that the election of the president will take place first from among the list of 10 candidates,” the USCCB press release reads. “Following the election of the president by a simple majority vote, the vice president is elected from the remaining nine candidates” The president and vice president are elected to three-year terms, which will begin at the conclusion of the Assembly, when Cardinal Dolan and Mgr. Kurtz’s tenures will come to an end.
“In either election, if a candidate does not receive more than half of the votes cast on the first ballot, a second vote is taken. If a third round of voting is necessary, that ballot is a run-off between the top two vote getters from the second ballot,” the USCCB press release explains.“At the meeting, the bishops will also vote for the chairman of the USCCB Committee on Catholic Education, the chairmen-elect of five other USCCB committees and new board members of the Catholic Legal Immigration Network Inc. (CLINIC) and Catholic Relief Services (CRS).”

Report: IAF Bombs Syrian Missiles

IAF warplanes attacked a shipment of advanced missiles from Syria to Hezbollah, says Kuwaiti newspaper

By Gil Ronen-First Publish: 10/23/2013, 11:20 AM-Israelnationalnews

IAF F-16-IAF Website

IAF warplanes attacked a shipment of advanced missiles that Syria was transferring to Hezbollah, according to Kuwaiti newspaper Al Jareeda. The attack took place on Monday.An official source in Jerusalem reportedly confirmed the attack took place but did not say where. The missiles were reportedly "long range and accurate" ones.In late July, IAF jets bombed trucks carrying Syrian missiles bound for Hezbollah's warehouses in Lebanon, according to Syrian opposition sources.The bombing reportedly targeted a Syrian military base near the town of Quneitra, not far from the Golan Heights cease-fire line.That was the fifth known Israeli attack this year on Syrian weapons bound for Hezbollah. Syrian strongman Bashar al-Assad reportedly wants to send the weapons to Hezbollah for safekeeping, out of fears they will fall into the hands of the rebels forces fighting him inside Syria, whilst the Iranian-backed terrorist group seeks "game changing weapons" – such as anti-aircraft missiles – in exchange for its costly intervention in the Syrian civil war on behalf of the Syrian regime.