Tuesday, October 01, 2013

POPE TALKS WITH CARDINALS ABOUT CURIA REFORM

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

HEBREWS 11:11-12
11  Through faith also Sara herself received strength to conceive seed,(Issac) and was delivered of a child when she was past age,(90) because she judged him faithful who had promised.
12  Therefore sprang there even of one, and him as good as dead, so many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is by the sea shore innumerable.(GODS PROMISE TO ISRAEL THAT THEY WOULD ALWAYS BE ON EARTH WITH ALL KINDS OF THEIR OWN LAND)(AND ISRAELIS WILL MULTIPLY GREATLY THE EARTH WITH CHILDREN)

And here are the bounderies of the land that Israel will inherit either through war or peace or God in the future. God says its Israels land and only Israels land. They will have every inch God promised them of this land in the future.

Egypt east of the Nile River, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, The southern part of Turkey and the Western Half of Iraq west of the Euphrates. Gen 13:14-15, Psm 105:9,11, Gen 15:18, Exe 23:31, Num 34:1-12, Josh 1:4.ALL THIS LAND ISRAEL WILL DEFINATELY OWN IN THE FUTURE, ITS ISRAELS NOT ISHMAELS LAND.

12 TRIBES INHERIT LAND IN THE FUTURE

ROMANS 11:26
26  And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion (JERUSALEM)  the Deliverer,(JESUS MESSIAH OF ISRAEL) and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob:(ISRAEL)
27  For this is my covenant unto them,(ISRAELIS) when I shall take away their sins.

Pew survey: 6.8 million US Jews, but majority intermarry

New study finds strong connection to Israel, but not to observance of Jewish law

October 1, 2013, 10:29 am 1-The Times of Israel
* Approximately one-quarter of Jews said religion is very important in their lives, compared to 56% among Americans generally. Among Jewish denominations, the Reform movement remains the largest with 35% of respondents identifying as Reform. The second-largest group is Jews of no denomination (30%), followed by Conservative (18%) and Orthodox (10%).As with other studies, the Pew study found that the Orthodox share of the American Jewish population is likely to grow because Orthodox Jews tend to be younger and have larger families than Jews generally. In addition, while past surveys showed about half of respondents raised as Orthodox were no longer Orthodox, the Orthodox retention rate appears to be improving, with just a 17% falloff among 18- to 29-year-olds.Most denominational switching among American Jews, however, remains in the direction of less traditional Judaism.In the Pew survey, 90% of those who identified as Jews by religion and are raising children said they are raising them Jewish. By comparison, less than one-third of those who identified themselves as Jews of no religion are raising their kids as Jewish.Among inmarried Jews, 96% are raising their children as Jews by religion (as opposed to ethnicity), compared to 45% among intermarried Jews.On Jewish observance, some 70% of respondents to the Pew survey said they participated in a Passover seder in 2012 and 53% said they fasted for all or part of Yom Kippur that year. The numbers represent declines from the 2000-01 National Jewish Population Survey conducted by the Jewish Federations of North America, which found seder participation rates at 78% and Yom Kippur fasting at 60%.While most of those surveyed by Pew said they felt a strong connection to Israel, and 23% reported having visited the Jewish state more than once, the respondents expressed significant reservations about the current Israeli government’s policies vis-a-vis the Palestinians.Forty-four percent said West Bank settlement construction hurts Israel’s security interests, and only 17% said continued settlement construction is helpful to Israeli security. Thirty-eight percent of respondents said the Israeli government is making a sincere peace effort with the Palestinians.The Pew survey also asked respondents about what it means to be Jewish, offering several options. The most popular element was remembering the Holocaust at 73%, followed by leading an ethical life at 69%.Fifty-six percent cited working for justice and equality; 43% said caring about Israel; 42% said having a good sense of humor; and 19% said observing Jewish law.Sixty-two percent of respondents said being Jewish is primarily a matter of ancestry and culture; 15% said it was mainly a matter of religion. Most Jews said it is not necessary to believe in God to be Jewish. In the survey, 60% said a person cannot be Jewish and believe that Jesus is the messiah.

MK Shaked Blasts Israeli Politicians for J-Street Attendance

"Your participation in the conference grants legitimacy to extreme and unbalanced criticism of Israel," warns Bayit Yehudi MK..-By Gil Ronen-First Publish: 10/1/2013, 2:28 PM-Israelnationalnews

Ayelet Shaked
Ayelet Shaked-Artium Degel
MK Ayelet Shaked (Bayit Yehudi/Jewish Home) had tough words Tuesday for the far-left J-Street lobby organization, and for fellow parliamentarians who attended a conference held by the group."In the past few days, the J-Street organization has held a conference in Washington," MK Shaked wrote on Facebook. "For those who are not familiar with it – the organization was established as a counterweight to AIPAC, the pro-Israeli lobby, by elements in US Jewry who claimed that AIPAC toes a line that identifies with Israel too much.""J Street has taken upon itself the role of Israel's loudest critic," she charged."Among its actions are the leading of a media campaign against the placing of sanctions on Iran by the US Congress; denunciation of the Cast Lead operation and its definition as 'an illegitimate and even criminal operation'; defining the takeover of the Marmara as 'brutal and cruel'; support for the US administration's demand to freeze construction in Jerusalem; pressure on the US administration not to veto the proposal by the Palestinian Authority to denounce Israel for construction in Judea and Samaria and more.""In other words – you understand whom we are dealing with here," she said to her followers."To the conference held by this group – for which the definition of radical leftist is an understatement – came several Knesset Members, like Justice Minister Tzipi Livni, Yitzhak Vaknin of Shas, and Tzachi Hanegbi of Likud."And I am asking them – dear MKs, are these your friends? Are these the elements with whom you choose to identify? Your participation in the conference grants legitimacy to extreme and unbalanced criticism of Israel."Shaked added that it is clear, today, that the Obama administration's support for Israel is "less than absolute," and accused the MKs who attended the conference of "strengthening those who led Obama to these delusional places."

JEREMEIAH 49:35-37 (IN IRAN AT THE BUSHEHR NUKE SITE SOME BELIEVE)
35  Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will break the bow of Elam,(IRAN/BUSHEHR NUCLEAR SITE) the chief of their might.(MOST DANGEROUS NUKE SITE IN IRAN)
36  And upon Elam will I bring the four winds from the four quarters of heaven,(IRANIANS SCATTERED OR MASS IMIGARATION) and will scatter them toward all those winds; and there shall be no nation whither the outcasts of Elam shall not come.(WORLD IMMIGRATION)
37  For I will cause Elam (IRAN-BUSHEHR NUKE SITE) to be dismayed before their enemies, and before them that seek their life: and I will bring evil upon them, even my fierce anger,(ISRAELS NUKES POSSIBLY) saith the LORD; and I will send the sword after them, till I have consumed them:(IRAN AND ITS NUKE SITES DESTROYED)

Iran FM accuses Israel's Netanyahu of 'lies'

Tehran (AFP) - Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif accused Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of lying in his rejection of Tehran's overtures to the West as a cosmetic "charm offensive".
"We have seen nothing from Netanyahu but lies and actions to deceive and scare, and international public opinion will not let these lies go unanswered," Zarif said in an interview with Iranian television broadcast on Tuesday.Zarif was speaking from the United Nations, where Netanyahu was set to the address the General Assembly later Tuesday, the same forum where last year he used a cartoon bomb as a prop to underline how close he believed Iran was to producing a nuclear warhead."For 22 years, the Zionist regime has been lying by repeating endlessly that Iran will have the atomic bomb in six months," Zarif said."After all these years, the world must understand the reality of these lies and not allow them to be repeated."Netanyahu headed to the United States determined to use his UN address and a White House meeting with President Barack Obama on Monday to expose what he regards as "sweet talk" from Iran about wanting to allay Western concerns about its nuclear programme.At the White House meeting, Netanyahu said it was vital that "Iran fully dismantles its military nuclear programme".He urged Obama to keep US sanctions in place throughout negotiations between Iran and the major powers over its nuclear programme.Zarif said that "Netanyahu was the most isolated man at the UN" as he prepared to give his General Assembly speech.Foreign ministry spokeswoman Marzieh Afkham echoed Zarif's comments at a press briefing in Tehran on Tuesday.
"The pressure coming from the Zionist regime is down to its isolation and its anger that the policy of the Iranian government has been well received," Afkham said.She said Washington now faced a "major test to show if it can stand up to the warmongers."

Netanyahu calls on senators to keep up pressure on Iran

Prime minister meets with Senate Foreign Affairs Committee after Obama talk; hosts farewell ceremony for Michael Oren

October 1, 2013, 8:40 am 1-The Times of Israel

Pope convenes cardinals for church reform talks

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis convenes his parallel cabinet on Tuesday for a first round of talks on reforming the Catholic Church, bringing eight cardinals from around the globe together in a novel initiative to get local church leaders involved in helping make decisions for the 1.2-billion strong universal Catholic Church.While the aim is for Francis to get advice, the Argentine Jesuit has already started making a mark on his own, with important Vatican appointments already made and clear-cut indications of the direction he wants to take the church that have elated liberals and alarmed many conservatives.Francis' recent interview with a Jesuit journal, in which he called for more balance between the church's rules on issues like abortion, homosexuality and contraception and the need for it to be a more welcoming, merciful place for all, has become the must-read mission statement of his papacy.It's unclear which of those issues feature in the 80-odd documents that will be considered by the pope and his so-called "Group of Eight" cardinals meeting behind closed doors this week. One core agenda item is certain: overhauling the Vatican bureaucracy, an antiquated administration that is universally disparaged as unhelpful to both the pope and the bishops it's designed to serve.The scandal over leaked documents last year showed the Vatican bureaucracy to be a dysfunctional warren of political infighting and turf battles, fueling calls for reform from the cardinals who elected Francis pope.Beyond the scandal, local church leaders have long bemoaned that Vatican courts take years to process requests for annulments and that Vatican offices are simply unresponsive to requests from them and lay faithful. Francis himself is a critic, frequently telling Vatican officials to be more pastors than bureaucrats. Just this weekend he told the Vatican police force that it was their job to stop the "devil" from creating internal wars through Vatican employees spreading gossip."It's a war that you don't fight with weapons, but with your tongue," he said.How the pope's chosen cardinal cabinet will interact, if at all, with the existing Vatican cabinet is a topic for much speculation among Vatican watchers.The Curia is organized according to a 1988 document "Pastor Bonus," which metes out the work and jurisdictions of the congregations, councils, courts and other offices that make up the governance of the church.Honduran Cardinal Oscar Andres Rodriguez Maradiaga, who heads the pope's advisory commission, said the planned reform won't just make a few changes to the document."No, that constitution is over," he told the Catholic channel Salt and Light Television. "Now it's something different. We need to write something different. But it's not going to take one month or two months."Indeed, no decisions are expected this week from the talks, and the pope has said reform takes time.That hasn't stopped reform groups from pinning their hopes for a more progressive church on Francis and his council of cardinals, who hail from North and South America, Africa, Asia, Europe and Australia.The worldwide church reform group We Are Church has written Francis asking for greater say among lay Catholics about the selection of bishops and for church officials to be removed from office if they mishandled cases of sexually abusive priests."Our fondest hope is that Pope Francis will accept a delegation of our leaders at the Vatican," organizer Rene Reid said in a statement. "He has been reaching out to atheists, gays and others. He wants dialogue. We want that too."Conservatives and traditionalists, however, have reacted with dismay and downright alarm at the direction Francis has taken, particularly in the interview with the Jesuit-run La Civilta Cattolica, in which he bemoaned the church's obsession with "small-minded rules."American canon lawyer Edward Peters suggested that Francis wasn't referring to abortion in rejecting such rules, but rather more superfluous ones like the one dictating who can march under the flag of certain religious societies on feast days.Conservative commentator George Neumayr went further, writing in The American Spectator that Francis was in sore need of "correcting." Francis' "culturally conditioned liberalism threatens to undermine the unity and orthodoxy of the faith," he wrote.
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09/30/2013 VATICAN INSIDER

Francis officially establishes “Council of Cardinals” to advise on Church government and Curia reform

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Francis officially establishes his "G8" group of advisors
Francis officially establishes his "G8" group of advisors

Francis has issued a chirograph officially establishing the eight-member Council of Cardinals to help him govern the Church and reform the Roman Curia

andrea tornielli rome Francis has issued a papal chirograph officially announcing the establishment of his “G8”, the group of eight cardinals who will have the task of advising the Pope on the government of the universal Church and the revision of the Apostolic Constitution Pastor Bonus on the Roman Curia.The document published today and dated 28 September, mentions the discussions held during the pre-Conclave General Congregations:  “Among the suggestions that emerged during the course of the General Congregations of Cardinals prior to the Conclave, was the convenience in instituting a small group of Members of the Episcopate, from different parts of the world, that the Holy Father could consult with, either individually or collectively, on particular issues,” the chirograph reads.In the chirograph, Francis states: “Now, after mature reflection, I consider it opportune, through this Chirograph, to officially institute as a " Council of Cardinals ‘, whose task is to help in the government of the universal Church and to study a draft revision of the Apostolic Constitution Pastor bonus on the Roman Curia.” The Pope confirmed that the council “will be composed of the same persons mentioned above and may be consulted, both individually and as a Council, on matters I feel worthy of attention. Said Council, the number of components of which I reserve the right to configure as deemed adequate, will be a further expression of Episcopal communion and auxiliary service that the Bishops around the world can offer to munus petrinum.”

The details of the council’s structure have therefore not yet been defined. Since it is a new advisory institution (council), adjustments will be made along the way as needed. The Pope confirmed what he said on a number of occasions and that is, that the more direct involvement of certain members of the Episcopate in advising the Bishop of Rome was something that had been requested during the pre-Conclave discussions. The council only has one Italian member, Cardinal Bertello, who is President of the Vatican City Governorate. The rest are cardinal archbishops of various dioceses across the five continents. Only one of these is Emeritus.The council will not only be addressing the reform of the Roman Curia but will also be responsible for advising on the government of the universal Church. The “G8” will function as a group but members may also be consulted “individually” on matters he deems as important. The chirograph makes no mention of relations with other institutions which is further proof that it is still an open structure in the making, whose purpose is simply to advise and help the Pope.“It will boost the instruments already in place,” said the director of the Holy See Press Office, Fr. Federico Lombardi in a press conference. “You will recall that advice is also given in various meetings such as the meeting of heads of Curia dicasteries and the commissions in charge of looking into the Church’s financial and administrative affairs, such as the Synod of Bishops. Then there are the bishops’ ad limina visits.”“Over the past months, the group of eight cardinals has been gathering proposals and notes from individual advisors working in their respective fields of expertise or directly from the Pope, or from the Roman Curia and the Secretary of State. About 80 documents have been gathered and circulated among the council’s members and its secretary, Bishop Marcelo Semeraro, who has prepared an initial summary.”The group’s various members, who are currently staying in St. Martha’s House, have already held several meetings with Pope Francis so the work in fact began some time ago. In recent days there were some informal meetings which the Pope did not attend. “There was a meeting on Saturday and there will be another one this afternoon,” Fr. Lombardi said. “Official meetings will take place in the private library near the entrance of the papal apartment in the Apostolic Palace. The Pope will attend the meetings that will be held in the morning and in the evening.”Cardinal Óscar Andrés Rodríguez Madariaga is in charge of coordinating the meetings. The Pope will give a very brief introduction but will mostly be just listening. Each of the eight cardinals will give their input on the various proposals put forth. “After this initial meeting, others will follow, so we cannot expect there to be any definitive conclusions, documents published or big decisions of any kind taken within the next few days.”The “G8|” and their work has nothing to do with the Pope’s pilgrimage to Assisi. “These cardinals are here so I have invited them on this pilgrimage. But the two events are not linked,” Fr. Lombardi said on the Pope’s behalf. No final communiqué is expected to be issued at the end of the council’s three-day meeting.

09/30/2013 VATICAN INSIDER

Cardinal Maradiaga: the reform of the Roman Curia will be a "long process"

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Cardinal Maradiaga
Cardinal Maradiaga

The coordinator of the Group of 8 Cardinals set up by Pope Francis to advise him on the government of the Catholic Church and Reform of the Roman Curia, speaks about their task on the eve of their October 1-3 meeting

Gerard O'Connell Rome

The Group of Eight Cardinals from all five continents chosen by Pope Francis to advise him on matters relating to the government of the Catholic Church and the reform of the Roman Curia will sit with him in the Vatican for their first plenary meeting from 1-3 October. They will also travel with him to Assisi on October 4, to pray at the tomb of St Francis.It will be the Groups’ first meeting with the Pope since the Vatican announced its establishment on April 13. But there will be other meetings in the future, the Group’s coordinator, Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga, stated in Quebec last week, in interviews with Canada’s Catholic television channel -“Salt and Light TV”.There has to be a lot of discussion and a lot of discernment” about the reform of the Curia, he said; “it cannot be done in one month or two.”  He predicted that “it will be a long process of discussion and discernment.”He recalled that there have been several reforms of the Roman Curia – the papal civil service, starting way back in the 16th century. More recently, Pope Pius X carried out one at the beginning of the 20th century, and Paul VI conducted another one after the Second Vatican Council (1962-65). John Paul II carried out the last such reform in 1989 and this resulted in the Constitution “Pastor Bonus” (The Good Shepherd) which formalized and codified that reform, Cardinal Maradiaga stated.He revealed that on March 17, four days after his election,  Pope Francis invited him to lunch at Santa Marta, the Vatican guesthouse where he resides, and there told him that he was setting up the Group of 8 cardinals from all five continents and that he had chosen him to be the Group’s coordinator.The eight cardinals are: Laurent Monswengo Pasinya ( Democratic Republic of the Congo),  Oswald Gracias (India), Reinhard Marx (Germany), Francisco Javier Errazuriz Ossa (Chile), Sean Patrick O’Malley (USA), Giuseppe Bertello (Roman Curia, an Italian), Oscar Andres Rodriguez Maradiaga (Coordinator of the Group, from Honduras).  An Italian bishop, Marcello Semeraro, is the secretary of the Group.“He had everything in his mind then”, including “the name of the new Secretary of State”,  Cardinal Maradiaga told Father Thomas Rosica, CEO of “Salt and Light TV”  in a TV interview that was broadcast in Canada last evening, September 29.Since Pope Francis set up the Group, he said its members have been active, “collecting suggestions from all round the world.”  Cardinal Francisco Javier Errazuriz Ossa from Chile, for example, “has put together 80 pages of beautiful suggestions” from Latin America.   Other sources say Cardinal Sean O’Malley (USA) consulted English speaking cardinals, while Maradiaga met with the Canadian Bishops Conference last week.As a result of these and other consultations, they “have put together” all the suggestions that they collected “around the main themes” and they discovered that “there is a convergence on many of the main subjects”.  “One can say that this is the work of the Holy Spirit, not ours”, the cardinal said, given the convergence of so many suggestions from different parts of the world.A Working Paper has been prepared for this week’s meeting, various sources report. It brings together the various proposals and suggestions that have been sent to the Group from different parts of the Catholic world as well as from officials of the Roman Curia, the papal civil service.  The Group planned to meet informally in the Vatican on September 30, before joining Pope Francis on October 1-3 for their first plenary session.“There has to be a long discussion and a long discernment.” Maradiaga said.  He made very clear that “it’s not just a case of taking the Constitution ‘Pastor Bonus’, and trying to change that. NO! That Constitution is over”, he stated firmly.  He made clear that they will not simply engage in a modification or adjustment of that basic 1989 text.  “Now we need to write something new,” he said.  He predicted that this process will take quite some time.But the work of the Advisory Group does not end with the reform of the Roman Curia, Maradiada said. Their task is much more than that, even this week: it is to advise the Pope regarding the government of the universal Church.In actual fact, though Maradiaga did not say this, Pope Francis has already indicated that he intends to solicit the cardinals’ views on other questions, including that of the Church’s pastoral approach to marriage (which includes the vexed question of divorced and re-married Catholics who are currently excluded from receiving communion).  He will also ask them for advice - possibly in this meeting, but certainly in future ones, on the reform of the synod of bishops which is part of the wider question regarding the exercise of collegiality in the Church, and the relationship of the ministry of the Successor of Peter with that of the bishops worldwide in the government of the universal Catholic Church.

DISEASES

REVELATION 6:7-8
7 And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.
8 And I looked, and behold a pale horse:(CHLORES GREEN) and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword,(WEAPONS) and with hunger,(FAMINE) and with death,(INCURABLE DISEASES) and with the beasts of the earth.(ANIMAL TO HUMAN DISEASE).

Asian bacteria threatens Florida oranges

Washington (AFP) - Citrus production in Florida, the world's second largest orange juice supplier after Brazil, is being threatened by bacteria from Asia that has got scientists racing for a remedy.Known as citrus greening, the bugs cause the fruit to remain bitter and fall from the tree before they can ripen.The bacteria, spread by a tiny insect called an Asian citrus psyllid, deprives the trees of nutrients.The disease can remain latent for five years before its effects start to show, and by then it is often too late, said Greg Carlton, chief of the Bureau of Pest Eradication and Control at the Department of Agriculture in Florida."Through the years we have seen more and more insects and disease," said Carlton, who has watched the problem balloon since it first arose in 2006."Last year about 20 percent of our fruits dropped on the ground. And we will start the harvest season in a few weeks -- we are not sure whether we will get that drop again."In the 1990s, Florida citrus growers produced more than 200 million boxes, but this year that is expected to drop to 133 million, he said. Official forecasts are due October 11.Meanwhile, the costs of producing the fruit have more than doubled, from $800 an acre to $1,900 per acre in recent years, due to the high costs of controlling the pest.
"If we don't find a cure, it will eliminate the citrus industry in Florida," said Senator Bill Nelson, a Democrat from Florida."And we will end up paying $5 for an orange -- and it'll have to be one imported from someplace else."Nelson helped garner $11 million in federal aid to finance research into the disease.
The citrus industry generates $9 billion a year and nearly 76,000 jobs in Florida, making it an important economic engine for the southern state.The disease has already cost $4.5 billion and 8,200 jobs since 2006, said Michael Sparks, chief executive officer of the Florida Citrus Mutual, citing a study done at the University of Florida."We have been hit hard, but we have put our full faith in our future into research. In fact, in the last seven years we have spent nearly $70 million in research," he told AFP.Growers have cut down vast numbers of infected trees and are using insecticides more frequently, as well as providing nutrients to bolster the trees' health.Sparks described these as "significant" changes that "we believe will keep us on course until a solution has been identified."Florida is not alone in facing heavy losses from citrus greening. Texas and California have also struggled with their oranges, grapefruit and lemons.Greening has also hit Brazil -- the top orange producer in the world -- along with other countries.US and Brazilian experts are sharing resources in the hopes of finding a way to eradicate the bacteria."People are thinking of making engineered plants that are resistant, like GMO-citrus," said Abhaya Dandekar, a molecular biologist at the University of California, Davis."So now we are working to help the plant fight the bacteria.son helped garner $11 million in federal aid to finance research into the disease.The citrus industry generates $9 billion a year and nearly 76,000 jobs in Florida, making it an important economic engine for the southern state.The disease has already cost $4.5 billion and 8,200 jobs since 2006, said Michael Sparks, chief executive officer of the Florida Citrus Mutual, citing a study done at the University of Florida."We have been hit hard, but we have put our full faith in our future into research. In fact, in the last seven years we have spent nearly $70 million in research," he told AFP.Growers have cut down vast numbers of infected trees and are using insecticides more frequently, as well as providing nutrients to bolster the trees' health.Sparks described these as "significant" changes that "we believe will keep us on course until a solution has been identified."Florida is not alone in facing heavy losses from citrus greening. Texas and California have also struggled with their oranges, grapefruit and lemons.
Greening has also hit Brazil -- the top orange producer in the world -- along with other countries.US and Brazilian experts are sharing resources in the hopes of finding a way to eradicate the bacteria."People are thinking of making engineered plants that are resistant, like GMO-citrus," said Abhaya Dandekar, a molecular biologist at the University of California, Davis."So now we are working to help the plant fight the bacteria."

DRUG PUSHERS AND ADDICTS

1 PET 5:8
8 Be sober,(NOT DRUGED UP OR ALCOHOLICED) be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:

REVELATION 18:23
23 And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries (DRUGS) were all nations deceived.

REVELATION 9:21
21 Neither repented they of their murders,(KILLING) nor of their sorceries (DRUG ADDICTS AND DRUG PUSHERS), nor of their fornication,(SEX OUTSIDE MARRIAGE OR PROSTITUTION FOR MONEY) nor of their thefts.(STEALING)

War' on illegal drugs is failing: study

Oct1,13-yahoonews
Paris (AFP) - The global war on heroin, cocaine and cannabis is failing to stem supply, as prices of these drugs have tumbled while seizures of them have risen, according to a study published Monday.Researchers analysed data from seven government-funded programmes that tracked the illegal drug market over more than a decade.Three of the programmes monitored international drugs trafficking; three focused on the United States; and one tracked the drugs business in Australia.The prices of heroin, cocaine and cannabis tumbled by 81 percent, 80 percent and 86 percent respectively between 1990 and 2007 in the United States when adjusted for inflation, the researchers found.Over the same period, the average purity of these drugs rose by 60 percent, 11 percent and 161 percent respectively.In 18 European countries, the street price of cocaine and heroin fell by 51 and 74 percent between 2000 and 2009.Neither the purity of drugs seized in Europe nor the price of cannabis on the continent was given in the study.In Australia, meanwhile, the inflation-adjusted price of cocaine fell by 14 percent between 2000 and 2010, and that of heroin and cannabis by 49 percent."During this time, seizures of these drugs in major domestic markets generally increased," said the study's authors, led by Evan Wood of the Urban Health Research Initiative in Vancouver, Canada."With few exceptions... illegal drug prices have generally decreased while drug purity has generally increased since 1990," they added.The global supply of illicit drugs had likely not been reduced in the last two decades, the study said, and the availability of cannabis and opiates like heroin may even have increased."These findings suggest that expanding efforts at controlling the global illegal drug market though law enforcement are failing," said the paper published in the open-access journal BMJ Open.The findings coincide with debate in several countries about whether to loosen laws on certain drugs.Uruguay in August took a step towards becoming the world's first nation to produce and distribute marijuana after its lower house of parliament approved a bill putting control of the drug in government hands.In a 2011 report, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) estimated the global illegal drug trade to be worth at least $350 billion (259 billion euros) annually.

STORMS HURRICANES-TORNADOES

LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;(MASS CONFUSION) the sea and the waves roaring;(FIERCE WINDS)
26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear,(TORNADOES,HURRICANES,STORMS) and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth:(DESTRUCTION) for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.(FROM QUAKES,NUKES ETC)

THE FIRST JUDGEMENT OF THE EARTH STARTED WITH WATER-IT ONLY MAKES SENSE THE LAST GENERATION WILL BE HAVING FLOODING
GENESIS 7:6-12
6 And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.
7 And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.
8 Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth,
9 There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.
10 And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.
11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
GOD PROMISED BY A RAINBOW-THE EARTH WOULD NEVER BE DESTROYED TOTALLY WITH A FLOOD AGAIN.BUT FLOODIING IS A SIGN OF JUDGEMENT.

Storm knocks out power, swamps Pacific Northwest

SEATTLE (AP) — An early winter storm dumped a record amount of rain in the Pacific Northwest, knocked out power to thousands and likely churned up a rare tornado Monday that ripped a hole in the roof on an industrial plant near Seattle.The most dramatic damage was at an industrial park in Frederickson, south of Tacoma. As thunder and lightning flashed, the wind uprooted trees and tore a jagged hole in the roof of the Northwest Door manufacturing plant."It looked from the inside like a wave going along. You could actually see the roof flexing," Northwest Door President Jeff Hohman said.Witnesses reported seeing a tornado in the area at the time, and the Weather Service sent a team to Frederickson to investigate.
Washington may get a tornado or two every year, but they are usually small. One of the largest was an F3 in 1972 in Vancouver that killed six people.No one was injured in Monday. About 100 employees evacuated and the business closed while inspectors assess a 40-by-40-foot hole in the roof.The wind also caused damage at a nearby Boeing plant, mostly in the parking lot, spokesman Doug Alder said. The storm blew out the windows of about two dozen cars and knocked down fences, power lines and trees. Some tiles were blown off the Boeing roof. Nobody was injured and there wasn't any damage to airplane parts or equipment.
Several thousand employees work at the Frederickson site, which makes parts and sections for just about every Boeing airplane, including the vertical tails for the 777 and 787.Parts of the Northwest got more rain in a day or two over the weekend than typically falls in the entire month."We basically had conditions well off shore that were very reminiscent of late fall-early winter," said Dana Felton, meteorologist at the National Weather Service office in Seattle.With Mondays' precipitation still to be added, it's been the wettest September on record in Olympia and the second-wettest in Seattle.Nearly 8 inches fell in Olympia, topping a 1978 record and swamping the usual 1.7 inches that fall in that time, the National Weather Service said. Sea-Tac Airport's September total of 5.6 inches came second to a 1978 record, while downtown Portland saw 6.2 inches — the most since record-keeping began in 1872.Puget Sound Energy had about 12,000 customers out of service late Sunday, the Bellevue-based utility reported. Seattle City Light reported it had about 3,200 customers out of service overnight. Portland General Electric had more than 90,000 customers out of power since the storm began.___Tim Fought in Portland contributed to this report.

At least five people trapped by rock slide in Colorado mountains

DENVER (Reuters) - Mountain rescuers were dispatched on Monday to save at least five people buried by rubble from a rock slide in the Colorado Rockies southwest of Denver, officials said.The Chaffee County sheriff's department was alerted late Monday morning by an emergency-911 call from a woman reporting she had been struck in the head by a falling rock and that there five to seven people trapped in the avalanche, county spokeswoman Monica Broaddus told Reuters.She said rescue efforts were under way to reach five individuals still buried by in slide whose conditions were not immediately known.A sixth victim, described as a 13-year-old girl, was plucked from the rubble by a sheriff's deputy who was one of the first to arrive on the scene, Broaddus said. The girl was flown by helicopter to a Denver-area hospital about 130 miles away, the spokeswoman said.No further details on the circumstances of the slide or the conditions of the victims were immediately available.The avalanche occurred in a rugged backcountry area popular with hikers in the vicinity of the 14,000-foot (4,267-meter) tall Mount Princeton, one of the so-called Collegiate Peaks in Sawatch Range of the Rockies.(Reporting by Keith Coffman; Writing by Steve Gorman; Editing by Lisa Shumaker)

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

24 earthquakes - DownloadUpdated: 2013-10-01 07:40:19 UTC-04:00Showing event times using Local System Time (UTC-04:00)24 earthquakes in map area
  1. 2.7 7km E of Edmond, Oklahoma 2013-10-01 04:18:26 UTC-04:00 5.0 km
  2. 2.5 42km E of Cape Yakataga, Alaska 2013-10-01 03:30:13 UTC-04:00 17.7 km
  3. 2.8 79km NNW of Larsen Bay, Alaska 2013-10-01 02:13:59 UTC-04:00 97.4 km
  4. 2.6 22km N of Redoubt Volcano, Alaska 2013-10-01 00:19:37 UTC-04:00 100.0 km
  5. 4.8 30km SE of Putre, Chile 2013-10-01 00:12:22 UTC-04:00 128.9 km
  6. 2.5 19km N of Hatillo, Puerto Rico 2013-09-30 23:49:38 UTC-04:00 64.0 km
  7. 3.1 54km ESE of Cordova, Alaska 2013-09-30 23:48:59 UTC-04:00 29.2 km
  8. 6.7 Sea of Okhotsk 2013-09-30 23:38:21 UTC-04:00 578.2 km
  9. 4.2 30km ESE of Vinaros, Spain 2013-09-30 23:32:45 UTC-04:00 0.0 km
  10. 2.5 49km S of Redoubt Volcano, Alaska 2013-09-30 21:04:46 UTC-04:00 98.3 km
  11. 4.7 1km NE of Borazjan, Iran 2013-09-30 19:44:40 UTC-04:00 10.0 km
  12. 4.4 20km S of Sayula de Aleman, Mexico 2013-09-30 19:20:36 UTC-04:00 138.8 km
  13. 4.1 105km WSW of Puerto Madero, Mexico 2013-09-30 18:57:49 UTC-04:00 10.0 km
  14. 5.4 38km NE of Nuku`alofa, Tonga 2013-09-30 18:41:03 UTC-04:00 40.3 km
  15. 3.2 83km SW of Atka, Alaska 2013-09-30 17:29:44 UTC-04:00 25.8 km
  16. 2.9 97km NNW of Kodiak Station, Alaska 2013-09-30 17:00:26 UTC-04:00 64.2 km
  17. 3.1 62km WNW of Kailua-Kona, Hawaii 2013-09-30 15:13:25 UTC-04:00 30.6 km
  18. 3.7 5km S of Volcano, Hawaii 2013-09-30 15:00:06 UTC-04:00 2.9 km
  19. 2.7 2km SE of Loma Linda, California 2013-09-30 13:35:33 UTC-04:00 16.5 km
  20. 2.7 5km S of Volcano, Hawaii 2013-09-30 11:57:35 UTC-04:00 3.5 km
  21. 4.9 18km ESE of Kitaibaraki, Japan 2013-09-30 09:37:39 UTC-04:00 45.5 km
  22. 5.0 142km NNW of Kandrian, Papua New Guinea 2013-09-30 08:25:25 UTC-04:00 44.8 km
  23. 2.8 73km NNE of San Juan, Puerto Rico 2013-09-30 08:00:34 UTC-04:00 35.0 km
  24. 4.5 26km NNE of Poso, Indonesia 2013-09-30 07:46:11 UTC-04:00 49.0 km

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