VATICAN BANK QUADRUPLES EARNINGS

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

LAND FOR PEACE (THE FUTURE 7 YEARS OF HELL ON EARTH)

JOEL 3:2
2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people(ISRAEL) and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.(UPROOTED ISRAELIS AND DIVIDED JERUSALEM)(THIS BRINGS ON WW3 BECAUSE JERUSALEM IS DIVIDED,WARNING TO ARABS-MUSLIMS AND THE WORLD).

THE WEEK OF DANIEL 9:27 WE KNOW ITS 7 YRS

Heres the scripture 1 week = 7 yrs Genesis 29:27-29
27 Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.
28 And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week: and he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also.
29 And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be her maid.

DANIEL 11:21-23
21 And in his estate shall stand up a vile person, to whom they shall not give the honour of the kingdom: but he shall come in peaceably, and obtain the kingdom by flatteries.
23 And after the league made with him he shall work deceitfully: for he shall come up, and shall become strong with a small people.
24 He shall enter peaceably even upon the fattest places of the province; and he shall do that which his fathers have not done, nor his fathers' fathers; he shall scatter among them the prey, and spoil, and riches: yea, and he shall forecast his devices against the strong holds, even for a time.

DANIEL 9:26-27
26 And after threescore and two weeks(62X7=434 YEARS+7X7=49 YEARS=TOTAL OF 69 WEEKS OR 483 YRS) shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary;(ROMAN LEADERS DESTROYED THE 2ND TEMPLE) and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.(THERE HAS TO BE 70 WEEKS OR 490 YRS TO FUFILL THE VISION AND PROPHECY OF DAN 9:24).(THE NEXT VERSE IS THAT 7 YR WEEK OR (70TH FINAL WEEK).
27 And he ( THE ROMAN,EU PRESIDENT) shall confirm the covenant (PEACE TREATY) with many for one week:(1X7=7 YEARS) and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,(3 1/2 yrs in TEMPLE ANIMAL SACRIFICES STOPPED) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.

JEREMIAH 6:14
14 They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.

JEREMIAH 8:11
11 For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.

1 THESSALONIANS 5:3
3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.

ISAIAH 33:8
8  The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: he hath broken the covenant,(7 YR TREATY) he hath despised the cities, he regardeth no man.(THE WORLD LEADER-WAR MONGER CALLS HIMSELF GOD)

ISAIAH 28:14-19 (THIS IS THE 7 YR TREATY COVENANT OF DANIEL 9:27)
14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.
15 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
16 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.
17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.
19 From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.

Op-Ed: The PA Must Back its Rhetoric on Peace with Actions

Published: Thursday, October 03, 2013 10:11 AM

Everyone is ready to find fault with Israel, but both sides need to play productive roles in this process. This means the PA must also take conciliatory steps. Where are they?

Aaron Magid

Many commentators have noted that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s settlement building in the "West Bank" and East Jerusalem has negatively impacted the atmosphere for peace negotiations.Yet, the situation is far more complex, with both sides needing to play productive roles. The Palestinian Arab leadership must take conciliatory steps to prevent the situation from deteriorating and show the Israeli pubic that the Palestinian Authority (P.A.) is a genuine partner for peace during the increased violence.When Israel first announced settlement construction at the beginning of peace talks, Bloomberg’s Jeffery Goldberg condemned Netanyahu’s shortsighted refusal to freeze settlement building, writing that the Prime Minister valued politics over security.  Yet, many of these same pundits have not applied the same level of criticism towards Abbas and the Palestinian Arabs' arguably more problematic actions.The Palestinian Arabs should take steps that would dramatically improve the mood during peace talks.

Palestinian Arab leadership often speaks of the heightened sense of urgency in needing to reach a peace agreement.... their actions on the ground do not match this peaceful rhetoric.
At the beginning of the talks, the Israeli parliament invited Palestinian Authority legislators to the Knesset with the support of 33 Members of Knesset and ministers to promote a spirit of reconciliation hanging the PA and Israeli flags side by side.Abbas was supposed to respond by hosting a gathering with Israeli MKs in Ramallah a month later. However, at the last minute he cancelled.  Abbas called off the toast. According to the official statement, Abbas needed to postpone the event because of the imminent American strike on Syria. Yet, this excuse has turned out to be unsatisfactory, as no strike has been launched and Abbas has not rescheduled the meeting.The Jerusalem Post’s Khaled Abu Toameh reported that anti-normalization pressure within Abbas’ own party led to the cancellation. If Abbas was unwilling to meet publicly with Israelis in Ramallah, a minimal step for any long-term peace agreement, then such behavior speaks volumes to the lack of Palestinian Arab commitment towards reaching a permanent accord.
Furthermore, the Palestinian Authority negotiators have blatantly violated the understanding reached by US Secretary of State John Kerry that both parties maintain absolute silence regarding the peace talks. Kerry pushed for this policy in order to minimize the negativity by either party that could harm the negotiation’s success.  Although lead negotiator Tzipi Livni and the Israeli delegation have followed the American order, the Palestinian Authority side has breached the understanding. Yasser Abed Rabbo, a senior aide to Palestinian Authority headt Mahmoud Abbas, when speaking with Voice of Palestine radio, declared, “these negotiations will not lead anywhere” and “there have been no developments in these talks.”
The increase of violence from the "West Bank" has added to this worrying trend. During the past week, Palestinian Arabs have killed two Israeli soldiers in separate incidents. These murders lead to troubling speculations.Abbas may not have real control over security in the "West Bank"; this marginalizes his role as President and reduces any chance of reaching a permanent accord with him. On the other hand, if Abbas is firmly in charge of the region, then the killings demonstrate that he is not seriously combatting terror. After the killing of IDF soldier Tomer Hazan over the weekend, the killer’s father announced, “I am telling you this from the bottom of my heart… if the military would give me an M-16 (assault rifle) I would go and shoot my son.” Nonetheless, Fatah Central Committee Member Abbas Zaki said that Netanyahu and the Israeli government are the ones to blame for the attack. By allowing senior members of Abbas’ party to launch such outrageous accusations, Fatah is torpedoing the chances of convincing the Israeli public that Palestinian Arabs are now determined to reach a true peace.Finally, rocket fire from Gaza, intentionally targeting nearby Israeli civilians, has continued repeatedly despite the Egyptian mediated cease-fire last year. As recently as Thursday, Gazan terrorists launched rockets at the Israeli city of Ashkelon. This act of terror is in addition to the dozens of other rocket attacks, which struck Israel during recent months. These acts destroy make it difficult for the Israeli public to accept the necessary compromises to reach a solution when their security is so tenuous.The Palestinian Arab leadership often speaks of the heightened sense of urgency in needing to reach a peace agreement to establish an independent state. Unfortunately, their actions on the ground do not match this peaceful rhetoric.

Social 'scoreboard' to feature in eurozone governance

02.10.13 @ 17:28

By Honor Mahony

BRUSSELS - The European Commission has proposed strengthening the social side of its eurozone governance amid fears the EU is in several member states becoming a byword for austerity and joblessness.
In an ideas paper published Wednesday (2 October), social affairs commissioner Laszlo Andor said a scoreboard should be established to keep track of unemployment and social data in member states.This would help "detect trends" in joblessness, people at risk of poverty, young people in neither training or education, inequality, and household income at an early stage.The scoreboard is to be integrated into the EU's budgetary cycle - the European semester - so that national policy recommendations made by Brussels would take this data into account."This should serve as an analytical tool, allowing for the better and earlier identification of major employment and social problems," says the commission.The key indicators would focus on "employment and social trends that can severely undermine employment, social cohesion and human capital."However, member states will not be forced to changed the policies in these areas if the scoreboard - due to be established in November - shows up failings.There will be "no automatic consequences" from the scoreboard results but it should help policy-makers to "focus better," said Laszlo.He acknowledged that "many would like to see more [ambition]" but pointed to the "limitation" of the EU treaties where social and employment policy is in the hands of member states.Laszlo's paper also says the commission will come forward with a proposal by the end of the year to make it easier for people to seek and find jobs in other member states, amid low figures of just 4 percent cross-border mobility in the eurozone.It will also present plans in 2014 on simplifying the granting of unemployment benefits for those looking for work in another member state.The paper comes as the eurozone faces record unemployment rates as it continues to focus on austerity measures as a way out of the economic crisis.The latest figures, for August 2013, show 19.2 million people are without jobs in the eurozone. Of these, 3.5 million (24 percent) are young people. The figures are starkest in Greece, where 63 percent of young people have no work.The high figures as well as the length of time that people are unemployed has led to references to Europe's "lost generation" and warnings that the EU is being viewed as part of the problem rather than the solution.European Parliament President Martin Schulz called Wednesday's proposals "well-meaning" but said they were "not ambitious enough."The European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) said it "deplores" the fact that the social indicators do not have "a real and binding impact on economic policies."

Rise of ‘Jews of no religion’ most significant find of Pew study, says director

Landmark new survey among American Jewish Millennials shows a whopping 32% describe themselves as proudly Jewish by culture alone; 71% of non-Orthodox Jews marrying out

By Ben Zehavi October 3, 2013, 2:25 pm 0-The Times of Israel

WASHINGTON — The first comprehensive survey of American Jews in the 21^st Century, which has been making waves this week, reveals some dramatic changes in Jewish identity. The most significant, according to one of the study’s lead authors, is that one-fifth of American Jews don’t even call themselves “Jewish” when asked about their religion.“When we ask this group what their religion is, they tell us they’re atheists, agnostic or not particular to any religion,” says Greg Smith, Director of US Religion Surveys at the Pew Research Center. “But they do subsequently tell us they consider themselves Jewish or partially Jewish aside from religion. They say they were raised Jewish or had at least one Jewish parent.”In the study, this group is called “Jews of no religion,” and their numbers are rising. Among US Jews who were born before 1927, the so-called Greatest Generation, only seven percent did not call themselves Jewish by religion. By contrast, among American Jewish Millennials, those born after 1980, 32% do not describe themselves as Jewish by religion. Rather, they identify as Jewish only on the basis of ancestry, ethnicity, or culture.“That is a big and significant number,” says Smith. “The generational pattern suggests that it’s growing and that’s very important because the data show that Jews of no religion are much less connected to the Jewish community, are much less engaged and involved in Jewish organizations and are much less likely to be raising their children Jewish as compared to Jews who describe themselves as Jews by religion.”Smith says the difference between these two poles of American Jewry “is like night and day.”Less than half of US Jews who grew up Orthodox remained part of the community.According to the survey, Orthodox Jews, which comprise only 10% of US Jewry, are much more observant on a variety of measures such as synagogue attendance and participation in life-cycle rituals. But the study also discovered that less than half of US Jews who grew up Orthodox remained part of the community.Among the three major denominations, Reform Jews have the highest retention rate at 55%. Forty-eight percent of those who grew up Orthodox remained in the Orthodox community, whereas only 36% of US Jews who were raised Conservative stayed within the movement.

The falloff from Orthodoxy, at least, appears to be declining and is significantly lower – only 17% – among 18 to 29 year olds. It’s an open question as to whether this is due to a change within the community or simply that not enough time has elapsed for these Jews to change their affiliation.The most talked-about number in the new survey is sure to be the intermarriage rate, often considered the leading indicator of the health and long-term prospects of the American Jewish community.The Pew survey found the overall intermarriage rate at 58%, but a whopping 71% among the non-Orthodox.The Pew survey found the overall intermarriage rate at 58%, with a whopping 71% among the non-Orthodox. According to Smith, there is good news and bad news in this.“The good news — the data appears to show that the intermarriage rate is pretty flat, at least over the past couple of decades,” he says. “However, the bad news is that, compared to the past, it’s very high. Of those who were married before 1970, only 17% have a non-Jewish spouse.”

Rabbi Shmuel Herzfeld of Washington, DC’s Congregation Ohev Shalom/The National Synagogue, calls the data on intermarriage and secularization “sobering, but not unexpected.”“Surveys like this can tell us a lot about the community level on a macro level, but we need to remind ourselves that they say very little on a micro level,” says Herzfeld, a modern orthodox rabbi. “Before we can expect communal redemption from the problems highlighted in this survey, we must hope for many individual redemptions, each in their own unique way.”‘Surveys like this can tell us a lot about the community level on a macro level, but… very little on a micro level’Herzfeld says “there is no quick fix” to the American Jewish community’s problems, but says the community “must redouble our efforts to connect with individual Jews and teach the Torah. We must redouble our efforts to encourage more Jews to become teachers of Torah.”On the latter, Herzfeld is leading by example as his synagogue was one of the first in the nation to hire a female Orthodox clergy member, Maharat Ruth Balinsky Friedman.Jack Wertheimer, a professor of American Jewish history at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York, told the New York Times that the Pew study is “a very grim portrait of the health of the American Jewish population in terms of their Jewish identification.” And Phil Zuckerman, a professor of sociology and secular studies at Pitzer College, told the Los Angeles Times that, if secular Jews aren’t being wooed by Jewish institutions, “They may walk away… And what you’ll have left is the Orthodox.”But Smith, who oversaw the Pew survey, cautions against “confusing religious observance or levels of observance with levels of strength of Jewish identity.”“What comes through loud and clear in the data,” he says, “is that religion may not be that important in many Jews’ lives, but being Jewish is. They tell us they are proud of being Jewish, they feel a close connection to the Jewish people and a strong sense of identity.”‘Religion may not be that important in many Jews’ lives, but being Jewish is’“So those two things – secularization and a strong sense of Jewish identity – are not contradictory.” It’s not that American Jewish identity is necessarily waning, he says, but, rather, it’s changing.One area where change is apparent is American Jewish attitudes to Israel. The Pew survey found that 7 in 10 US Jews say they feel attached to the Jewish state and 4 in 10 say they’ve been to Israel at least once. However, along with this sense of connection, there is also a new willingness to be critical of the Israeli government.When asked whether they believe the current Israeli government is sincere in its efforts to make peace with the Palestinians, 38% said yes and 48% said no, a finding Smith called “striking.” To be sure, there was even more skepticism about Palestinian intentions as 75% of respondents don’t think the Palestinian leadership is making a sincere effort to achieve peace.The full report has much more on Israel and contains a treasure trove of information on American Jewish attitudes. Among the more surprising findings:

• More than one-third (34%) of American Jews say believing Jesus is the Messiah is compatible with Judaism.
• Forty-two percent believe having a good sense of humor is part of what it means to be Jewish.
• One-quarter (25%) of US Jews have a household income exceeding $150,000 (compared with eight percent of the public as a whole).
• Seventy percent are Democrats compared with 22% who call themselves Republicans; however, among the Orthodox, 57% lean Republican and 36% lean Democrat.
• Only 17% of US Jews believe the building of Jewish settlements enhances Israel’s security.

The survey, called A Portrait of Jewish Americans, has been in the works for years and cost several million dollars. Smith says the Pew Research team spoke with more than 70,000 people across the country in order to recruit a large enough sample of Jews. Interviews were conducted from February to June of this year in English and Russian, on land lines and via cell phones. The margin of error for the full sample is plus or minus three percentage points.

GENESIS 16:11-12
11 And the angel of the LORD said unto her,(HAGAR) Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael;(FATHER OF THE ARAB/MUSLIMS) because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.
12 And he (ISHMAEL) will be a wild man;(ISLAM IS A FAKE AND DANGEROUS SEX FOR MURDER CULT) his hand will be against every man,(ISLAM HATES EVERYONE) and every man's hand against him;(PROTECTING THEMSELVES FROM BEING BEHEADED) and he (ISHMAEL ARAB/MUSLIM) shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.(LITERAL-THE ARABS LIVE WITH THEIR BRETHERN JEWS)

ISAIAH 14:12-14
12  How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer,(SATAN) son of the morning!(HEBREW-CRECENT MOON-ISLAM) how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
13  For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:
14  I (SATAN HAS EYE TROUBLES) will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.(AND 1/3RD OF THE ANGELS OF HEAVEN FELL WITH SATAN AND BECAME DEMONS)

ISAIAH 33:1,18-19 Woe to thee that spoilest,(destroys) and thou wast not spoiled;(destroyed) and dealest treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with thee! when thou shalt cease to spoil,(destroy) thou shalt be spoiled;(destroyed) and when thou shalt make an end to deal treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with thee.
18 Thine heart shall meditate terror. Where is the scribe? where is the receiver? where is he that counted the towers?
19 Thou shalt not see a fierce people, a people of a deeper speech than thou canst perceive; of a stammering tongue, that thou canst not understand.

JOHN 16:2
2 They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.(ISLAM MURDERS IN THE NAME OF MOON GOD ALLAH OF ISLAM)

Netanyahu: Ayatollah Khamenei ‘heads a cult’

PM tells NBC that Iranians are pro-Western but governed by supreme leader, not Rouhani; tells PBS that Israel, Arab states can form alliance to thwart Iran

By Yoel Goldman October 3, 2013, 4:15 am 10-The Times of Israel

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took to the US airwaves Wednesday, persistent in his effort to convince the international community that Iranian President Hasan Rouhani’s charm offensive at the UN last week was an act meant to cover up Iran’s nuclear weapons ambitions.“Everybody knows that Iran wants to destroy Israel and it’s building — trying to build atomic bombs for that purpose,” Netanyahu told NBC’s Andrea Mitchell.“You don’t want to be in a position where this messianic, apocalyptic, radical regime that has these wild ambitions but nice spokesmen, gets away with building these weapons of mass [destruction].”

Asked by Mitchell whether he ran the risk of overstating the threat and isolating Israel from the rest of the world that wants to see a diplomatic solution to the nuclear issue, the prime minister answered in the negative.“No, no, I want a diplomatic solution, but one that actually dismantles Iran’s nuclear program,” he said.Netanyahu dismissed the notion that Rouhani was freely elected, saying Iranians would topple the regime if they could.“These people, the Iranian people, the majority of them are actually pro-Western,” he stated, adding, “But they don’t have that. They’re governed not by Rouhani, they’re governed by Ayatollah Khamenei. He heads a cult. That cult is wild in its ambitions and its aggression.”Netanyahu had extended his trip to the US by an extra day, with the aim of speaking to as many US media outlets as possible about the Iranian nuclear threat.Speaking to PBS’s Charlie Rose, Netanyahu said that Arab states have a historic opportunity to ally with Israel to advance regional security, stability and peace in the face of the Iranian threat.Netanyahu emphasized his commitment to national security and urged caution when dealing with Iran. “We just have to make sure that in this state of flux, we do the right things and not the wrong things. Because we can easily upset the applecart in a way that we won’t be able to put it back together,” he told PBS. “We cannot do that, we have to be very responsible, buck the trends, don’t go by fashion. If you govern by fashion and you govern by the kind of editorials you’re gonna get, you’ll get good editorials and later you’ll get good eulogies.”“My responsibility is to ensure the survival, security, longevity of the one and only Jewish state. I will do that pursuing peace, and I’m prepared to make historic compromises,” Netanyahu said, perhaps alluding to ongoing peace talks with the Palestinians. Despite this, he said he would “never compromise on Israel’s security.”On Monday, with a US government shutdown looming, Netanyahu spent hours with President Barack Obama at the White House discussing Iran and making sure the US would keep up the pressure on the regime in Tehran.On Tuesday, Netanyahu vowed at the UN General Assembly that Israel would stop Iran’s nuclear drive on its own if necessary. “Israel will never acquiesce to nuclear arms in the hands of a rogue regime that repeatedly promises to wipe us out,” he said. Still, he stressed, he did not dismiss the diplomatic-sanctions route. “We all want to give diplomacy with Iran a chance to succeed,” he said.On Wednesday, Rouhani responded unequivocally to Netanyahu’s UN speech, promising to continue what Iran insists is a peaceful nuclear program with “full power.”“Israel is upset to see that its sword has gone blunt and Iran grows more powerful day by day,” Rouhani told reporters in Tehran, according to the semi-official Fars News Agency.

PLO Flag Flies over Homesh

Anti-Semitic posters replace menorah as PA Arabs take over former Jewish community.

By Maayana Miskin-First Publish: 10/3/2013, 1:17 PM-Israelnationalnews

Homesh, Thursday morning-From Facebook

Palestinian Authority resident Arabs took over the town of Homesh on Thursday morning, just two weeks after a government order supported turning the Jewish community over to PA hands.Pictures showed Arab men celebrating at the scene by waving PLO flags and holding up signs with what appeared to be anti-Semitic images, including a depiction of a religious Jew being speared through the head.The men painted over the picture of a menorah on the local water tower that had been Homesh’s trademark, replacing it with PLO images and slogans in Arabic.Homesh was destroyed in the 2005 “Disengagement” from Gaza and northern Samaria, but Jewish activists had returned to the town and had set up a new community in the ruins. Activists formed a group called Homesh First, with the goal of eventually resettling all of the towns demolished in the Disengagement.They remained at the site despite frequent expulsions by the Border Police, but were forced to leave when Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein declared that the area was no longer an Israeli community, giving PA residents free access.Former Yesha (Judea and Samaria) Council head Danny Dayan posted a photo to Twitter showing Arab men waving an anti-Semitic poster in Homesh. “This is how our partner celebrates entering the town of Homesh,” he wrote.“The immoral government decision to allow Arabs to take over the land of Homesh is now revealed in its full power: every Jewish symbol is desecrated, anti-Semitic pictures are held up,” Dayan said.“It’s not too late to correct this mistake and eject the rabble,” he urged.

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’s cyber chief killed in ‘internal dispute,’ Israel speculates

Iran denies that Mojtaba Ahmadi, reportedly gunned down outside Tehran by two men on a motorbike, was assassinated; says he died in a ‘horrific incident’

By Times of Israel staff October 3, 2013, 12:46 pm 2-The Times of Israel

A key Iranian cyber war operative may have been killed in an “internal dispute,” cabinet minister and former Shin Bet intelligence chief Yaakov Peri said Thursday.Peri, the minister of science, was speaking on Israel Radio as Iran denied reports that Cyber War Headquarters commander Mojtaba Ahmadi, who was recently found dead northwest of Tehran, had been assassinated. Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said he had died in a “horrific incident,” but ruled out assassination. “The main reason of the event and the motive of the attacker has not been specified,” added a Revolutionary Guards statement quoted by Reuters.On Wednesday, Britain’s Telegraph newspaper reported that Ahmadi had gone missing on Saturday, and that his body was discovered in a wooded area near the town of Karaj.He had been shot twice through the heart at close range by two people on a motorbike, the UK report said, quoting Alborz, a website linked to the Revolutionary Guards. “I could see two bullet wounds on his body and the extent of his injuries indicated that he had been assassinated from a close range with a pistol,” an eyewitness was quoted as telling the Iranian website.The timing of the killing, which came as Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu battles what he says is Iran’s duplicitous outreach to the West over its rogue nuclear program, was “triggering further accusations that outside powers are carrying out targeted assassinations of key figures in the country’s security apparatus,” the Telegraph said.“I assume Iran will accuse Israel” of killing Ahmadi, Peri said on Thursday morning. But the fact that this or that leading Iranian nuclear or cyber figure is killed, he said, did not mean that Israel was necessarily involved. “Many of these events are the consequence of internal disputes in Iran.”He also said that while the deaths of such figures can sometimes have an impact, “there are always replacements… And such acts do not always cause a slowing or a reduction” of the dangers posed by Iran.Curiously, in January 2012, the similarly named Mostafa Ahmadi-Roshan, an Iranian nuclear scientist and a director of the Natanz uranium enrichment facility in central Iran, was assassinated when a bomb was affixed to his car by two assailants on a motorbike in Tehran.The Iranian government has accused Israel of several recent assassinations, including that of Mostafa Ahmadi-Roshan and four other nuclear scientists, and the head of the country’s ballistic missiles program.The Telegraph report Wednesday said that “the Facebook page of the officers of the Cyber War Headquarters confirmed that Ahmadi had been one of their commander[s] and posted messages of condolence. But Alborz users warned that the openly accessible book of condolence could harm Iran’s national security. ‘Stop giving more information about him. The counter-revolutionaries will take advantage of his murder,’ said one post. ‘It sounds like a hit job for a security officer of this importance.’”Subsequently, said the British newspaper report, a statement from the Revolutionary Guards “said that Ahmadi’s death was being investigated. It warned against speculating ‘prematurely about the identity of those responsible for the killing.’ Western officials said the information was still being assessed.”On Tuesday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed at the UN General Assembly that Israel would stop Iran’s nuclear drive on its own if necessary. “Israel will never acquiesce to nuclear arms in the hands of a rogue regime that repeatedly promises to wipe us out,” he said. Still, he stressed, he did not dismiss the diplomatic-sanctions route. “We all want to give diplomacy with Iran a chance to succeed,” he said.On Wednesday, Iranian President Hasan Rouhani responded unequivocally to Netanyahu’s UN speech, promising to continue what Iran insists is a peaceful nuclear program with “full power.”“Israel is upset to see that its sword has gone blunt and Iran grows more powerful day by day,” Rouhani told reporters in Tehran, according to the semi-official Fars News Agency.

Rouhani: Israel’s ‘sword has gone blunt,’ while Iran grows more powerful

Responding to Netanyahu’s UN speech, Iranian president calls PM’s resort to ‘coarse language’ a source of ‘happiness’ for Tehran

By Ilan Ben Zion and Lazar Berman October 2, 2013, 6:57 pm-The Times of Israel

Iran’s President Hasan Rouhani on Wednesday struck back at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu following his address at the UN the day before, saying that Israel’s outrage at Iran’s empowerment pleases the Islamic Republic.“Israel is upset to see that its sword has gone blunt and Iran grows more powerful day by day,” Rouhani told reporters in Tehran, according to the semi-official Fars News Agency.Rouhani also promised to continue Iran’s nuclear program with “full power.”Speaking at the UN General Assembly on Tuesday, Netanyahu devoted the overwhelming majority of his address to condemning Iran’s nuclear ambitions, which it pursued, he said, while hiding “behind a smokescreen of diplomatic engagement.” The prime minister called on the international community to “mistrust, dismantle and verify” during its nuclear talks with Iran. He warned that Israel was prepared to act alone should diplomacy fail to halt Iran’s nuclear drive.“That an aggressive regime in the region names Iran with coarse language is the cause of our happiness,” Rouhani said following a cabinet meeting.The Iranian president — branded a duplicitous “wolf in sheep’s clothing” by Netanyahu on Tuesday — reiterated that Tehran’s nuclear program was for peaceful, nonmilitary purposes only, and said “we have nothing to hide in the field of nuclear energy,” the Iranian Republic New Agency reported.According to the semi-official Press TV, Rouhani said that after 34 years of a “very dark atmosphere” in US-Iran relations, a detente between the two countries would not be achieved overnight.

Hassan Firouzabadi, Iran’s chief of staff, also responded to Netanyahu’s statements on Wednesday, calling the prime minister a “warmonger” for his promise that Israel would stop Iran from attaining a nuclear weapon, Fars reported.“Netanyahu has marked his name as a warmonger on the UN walls,” charged Firouzabadi, “and gained nothing but amplifying the Zionists’ threats through these comments.”Firouzabadi added that Netanyahu’s speech showed desperation on the part of Israel.Iran’s UN delegation on Tuesday warned Israel not to so much as “think about” attacking it, telling Israel not to “miscalculate” and stressing the Islamic Republic’s ability to defend itself.Khodadad Seifi, Iran’s deputy ambassador to the UN, utilized a right of reply to speak immediately after Netanyahu’s address to the General Assembly, and said that he wouldn’t “dignify such unfounded accusations with an answer, other than categorically rejecting them all.”

He added: “Iranians are proud of being the best at exercising their inherent right of self-defense… Therefore, the Israeli prime minister had better not even think about attacking Iran, let alone planning for that.”

Woman raped, branded in Jerusalem forest

19-year-old victim attacked, sexually assaulted near Sanhedria neighborhood; police launch special investigation into incident

By Naama Barak October 3, 2013, 1:46 pm 2-The Times of Israel

A 19-year-old woman was found unconscious, covered with cuts and bruises, and branded with the letters “B” and “D” after being raped in a Jerusalem forest on Wednesday.The victim was found by yeshiva students near the northern neighborhood of Sanhedria, who heard screaming from the forest. She was taken by paramedics to Jerusalem’s Hadassah Hospital Ein Kerem for treatment of her injuries.According to a Channel 10 report, the police suspect that the crime — including the location and manner in which the woman was abused – was premeditated.Police on Thursday were trying to retrieve DNA evidence from the scene of the crime. Jerusalem District police commissioner Yossi Pariente ordered a special investigation to examine possible criminal or hate crime motives for the attack. 

 

POISONED WATERS

HOSEA 4:1-3
1 Hear the word of the LORD, ye children of Israel: for the LORD hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land,(EARTH) because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.
2  By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.
3  Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven; yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away.

ZEPHANIAH 1:2-3
2  I will utterly consume all things from off the land, saith the LORD.
3  I will consume man and beast; I will consume the fowls of the heaven, and the fishes of the sea, and the stumblingblocks with the wicked; and I will cut off man from off the land, saith the LORD.

EZEKIEL 32:6-9
6  I will also water with thy blood the land wherein thou swimmest, even to the mountains; and the rivers shall be full of thee.
7  And when I shall put thee out, I will cover the heaven, and make the stars thereof dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give her light.
8  All the bright lights of heaven will I make dark over thee, and set darkness upon thy land, saith the Lord GOD.
9  I will also vex the hearts of many people, when I shall bring thy destruction among the nations, into the countries which thou hast not known.

REVELATION 8:8-11
8 And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea: and the third part of the sea became blood;
9 And the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, and had life, died; and the third part of the ships were destroyed.
10 And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters;
11 And the name of the star is called Wormwood:(bitter,Poisoned) and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.(poisoned)

REVELATION 16:3-7
3 And the second angel poured out his vial upon the sea; and it became as the blood of a dead man: and every living soul died in the sea.(enviromentalists won't like this result)
4 And the third angel poured out his vial upon the rivers and fountains of waters; and they became blood.
5 And I heard the angel of the waters say, Thou art righteous, O Lord, which art, and wast, and shalt be, because thou hast judged thus.
6 For they(False World Church and Dictator) have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink; for they are worthy.

Overflowing tank cause of new leak at Fukushima

MARI YAMAGUCHI 31 minutes ago-oct 3,13-yahoonews

TOKYO (AP) — Another day, another radioactive-water spill. The operator of the meltdown-plagued Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant says at least 430 liters (110 gallons) spilled when workers overfilled a storage tank without a gauge that could have warned them of the danger.The amount is tiny compared to the untold thousands of tons of radioactive water that have leaked, much of it into the Pacific Ocean, since a massive earthquake and tsunami wrecked the plant in 2011. But the error is one of many the operator has committed as it struggles to manage a seemingly endless, tainted flow.Plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Thursday workers detected the water spilling from the top of one large tank when they were patrolling the site the night before. The tank is one of about 1,000 erected on the grounds around the plant to hold water used to cool the melted nuclear fuel in the broken reactors.TEPCO said the water then spilled out of a concrete barrier surrounding the tank and believed that most of it reached the sea via a ditch next to the river. The company later said, however, radiation levels in sea water samples taken just off the plant's coast remained below detectable levels.The new leak is sure to add to public concern and criticism of TEPCO and the government for their handling of the nuclear crisis. In August, the utility reported a 300-ton leak from another storage tank, one of a string of leaks in recent months.

Messages of support are written on a blackboard in a science class of primary school at the tsunami  …

That came after the utility and the government acknowledged that contaminated groundwater was seeping into ocean at a rate of 300 tons a day for some time.TEPCO spokesman Masayuki Ono told an urgent news conference Thursday that the overflow occurred at a 450-ton tank without a water gauge and standing on an unlevel ground, slightly tilting toward the sea. The tank was already nearly full, but workers pumped in more contaminated water into it to maximize capacity as the plant was facing a serious storage crunch. Recent rainstorms that flooded tank yards and the subsequent need to pump up and store contaminated rainwater also added to the shortage, he said."We could have, and should have, prevented the overflow," he said.
Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said efforts to stop leaks were still insufficient, but defended TEPCO for detecting the problem more quickly than the last time.TEPCO said the tank and four others in the same area were already filled up to 98 percent of its designed capacity, as in many other tanks elsewhere on the plant.

This photo released by Tokyo Electric Power Co. shows the storage tank which workers detected the wa …

Tetsuro Tsutsui, an engineer and expert of industrial tanks, said the latest problem was emblematic of how TEPCO runs the precarious plant. He said it was "unthinkable" to fill tanks up to the top, or build them on a tilted ground without building a level foundation."That's only common sense," Tsutsui, also a member of a citizens group of experts proposing safety measures for the plant. "But that seems to be the routine at the Fukushima Dai-ichi. I must say these are not accidents. There must be a systematic problem in the way things are run over there."Experts have faulted TEPCO for sloppiness in its handling not only of the water management but also in other daily operations. A list of mishaps just over the past few weeks:—On Oct. 2, some 4 tons of contaminated rainwater leaked when workers pumped it into a wrong tank that was also nearly full, causing most of it seeping into the ground.—On Sept. 27, a water treatment machine failed hours after resuming a test-run following months-long repairs, clogged up by a piece of rubber lining that got mistakenly left inside the unit. The rubber fragment has since been removed, with the unit back in operation.

This aerial photo shows the storage tank, bottom, which workers detected the water dripping from the …

—On Sept. 19, a fire-fighting water pipe got damaged during debris removal operation, with 300 liters of water spurting out of it.Experts have faulted TEPCO for sloppiness in its handling of the water management, including insufficient tank inspection records, lack of water gauges, as well as connecting hoses lying directly on the grass-covered ground. Until recently, only one worker was assigned to 500 tanks in a two-hour patrol.In recent meetings, regulators criticized TEPCO for even lacking basic skills to properly measure radioactivity in contaminated areas, and taking too long to find causes in case of problems. They also have criticized the one-foot (30-centimeter) high protective barriers around the tanks as being too low.So far, the leaks have occurred in easy-to-assemble rubber-seamed tanks that TEPCO had built quickly to accommodate swelling amounts of contaminated water, and the plant has promised to replace them with more durable welded tanks, which take more time and cost more to build. TEPCO has been criticized for building shoddy tanks to cut cost."As far as TEPCO people on our contaminated water and sea monitoring panels are concerned, they seem to lack even the most basic knowledge about radiation," said a Nuclear Regulation Authority commissioner Kayoko Nakamura, a radiologist."I really think they should acquire adequate expertise and commitment needed for the job," she said. 

SV FALSE POPE FROM THE VATICAN

REVELATION 13:11-13
11 And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth;(FALSE VATICAN POPE) and he had two horns like a lamb,(JESUS IS THE LAMB OF GOD) and he spake as a dragon.(HES SATANICALLY INSPIRED,HES A CHRISTIAN DEFECTOR FROM THE FAITH)
12 And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him,(WORLD DICTATOR) and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.(THE WORLD DICTATOR CREATES A FALSE RESURRECTION AND IS CROWNED LEADER OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER).
13 And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men,

REVELATION 17:1-5,9,15-18
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.
9 And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth.(THE VATICAN IS BUILT ON 7 HILLS OR MOUNTAINS)
15 And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.(VATICAN-CATHOLICS ALL AROUND THE WORLD OVER 1 BILLION)
16 And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast,(WORLD DICTATOR) these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire.
17 For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled.
18 And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth.

LUKEWARM CHURCHES

REVELATION 3:15-19
15 I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.
16 So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I(GOD) will spue (VOMIT) thee out of my mouth.
17 Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:
18 I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.
19 As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.

10/ 1/2013 VATICAN INSIDER

Vatican bank quadruples net earnings

The IOR headquarters

The Vatican has published the first-ever annual report for the Vatican bank. Its director, Ernst von Freyberg, says the bank is ready for inspection

vatican insider staff romE The Vatican took another step in its efforts to be more financially transparent by publishing a first-ever annual report for the Vatican bank on Tuesday. It comes as Italian prosecutors investigate alleged money-laundering there, a Vatican monsignor remains in detention and the Pope himself probes the problems that have brought such scandal to the institution.Net earnings at the bank, known as the Institute for Religious Works, rose more than four-fold to 86.6 million euros ($116.95 million) in 2012, the report said. More than 50 million euros of that was given to the pope for his charitable works. The improvement in earnings was driven by profits made on the value of securities that the bank held and sold — net trading income rose to 51.1 million euros from a loss of 38.2 million euros in 2011.The picture may not be so rosy for 2013, with rising interest rates cutting into profits and millions of euros earmarked for the IOR's ongoing transparency process, which has involved hiring outside legal, financial and communications experts to revamp its procedures, review its client base and remake its image."Overall, we expect 2013 to be marked by the extraordinary expenses for the ongoing reform and remediation process, and the effects of rising interest rates," bank president Ernst von Freyberg said in a statement. He said the publication of the report meets the bank's commitment to providing transparency about its activities.Aside from the earnings, the 100-page report published Tuesday provides some fascinating reading about the secretive institution: The IOR in 2012 had 41.3 million euros in gold, metals and precious coins, owned a real estate company and was bequeathed two investment properties worth 1.9 million euros. It also made some 25.8 million euros in loans in 2012.The Vatican has long insisted the IOR isn't a bank but a unique financial institution aimed at managing assets for religious or charitable works — a distinction that presumably helped it avoid typical banking regulations. Yet in the past year, the IOR has slowly revealed itself to work very much like a bank, providing asset management services to its clients, earning some 12.2 million euros in fees and commissions for such services in 2012 and making loans.The Vatican is about to enter a second round of international scrutiny by the Council of Europe's Moneyval committee, which helps countries comply with international norms to fight money laundering and terrorist financing. The Vatican passed Moneyval's inaugural inspection last year, but evaluators gave the IOR and the Vatican's financial oversight agency poor or failing grades for insufficient controls to ensure that its clients and assets were clean.The report was released as Rome prosecutors continue to investigate a Vatican accountant, Monsignor Nunzio Scarano, who was arrested in an alleged plot to bring 20 million euros into Italy from Switzerland without declaring it at customs. Scarano is also under investigation in his native Salerno for allegedly laundering money through his IOR account. His lawyer has insisted the money was clean and that he was only trying to help out friends.The IOR's former top managers, Paolo Cipriani and Massimo Tulli, meanwhile, are under investigation by Rome prosecutors for alleged violations of Italy's anti-money laundering norms. Rome financial police launched the investigation in 2010, seizing 23 million euros ($30 million) from a Vatican account at an Italian bank after determining that the IOR hadn't provided sufficient information about the transaction. The Vatican has said it was a misunderstanding and money was eventually ordered released. Cipriani and Tulli resigned in July.Around the same time, Pope Francis created a commission of inquiry into the IOR to look into every aspect of its operations to get to the bottom of the scandals that have bedeviled it. The commission has wide-ranging authority to obtain documents, data and information, even overriding traditional banking secrecy rules to get it. Francis also named a trusted prelate to be his eyes inside the bank to figure out what really goes on inside the tower just inside the Vatican walls.The Vatican bank was founded in 1942 by Pope Pius XII. It employs 114 people, runs the Vatican pension system and oversees about 6.3 billion euros in customer assets. Its customer base has been reduced from some 21,000 customers in 2011 to 18,900 last year, thanks to efforts to close inactive accounts. Customers include religious orders; Vatican offices, embassies and employees; individual cardinals, bishops and priests and foreign embassies accredited to the Holy See.

10/ 2/2013 VATICAN INSIDER

The Council of Cardinals sets to work on Synod and family reform

The "C8" sets to work

Vatican spokesman Fr. Federico Lombardi said the "C8" spent the first day of meetings discussing how to improve bishop participation

andrea tornielli vatican city The "C8", the eight-member Council of Cardinals set up by Francis to reform the Curia and the government of the universal Church talked mainly about the Synod of Bishops on the first day of their three-day meeting.  The Synod was established after the Second Vatican Council but not always has it proved to be useful and efficient.“On Tuesday afternoon [the Council] went on to discuss the issue of the Synod of Bishops which is a priority both in terms of its importance as a tool and in terms of bishops’ participation in the life of the universal Church. It is also important because of the urgent need to prepare for the next Synod.” The Vatican spokesman added that the Synod’s Secretary will give out detailed information next week about the Synod and communicate any modifications to the rules already in place.The Synod’s new Secretary, Archbishop Lorenzo Baldisseri, was present at the "C8’s" first meeting yesterday afternoon. One of the topics discussed was the family and Bergoglio brought it up himself. The Pope had told journalists on the return flight from Rio that the Council of Cardinals would deal with the issue of remarried divorcees. The group began its work yesterday morning in the papal apartment library in the Apostolic Palace but moved onto St. Martha’s House – where the 8 cardinals are staying while the meetings take place – yesterday afternoon, for the official meeting in a room close to the residence’s chapel. The meeting began with a brief introduction from the Pope. “The Council’s members then reflected on ecclesiology after the Council. The group’s work is not meant to be mainly organisational but is inspired by a certain theological and spiritual vision of the Church and linked to the ecclesiology of the Council.” The cardinals took several aspects into account in their perspective and preparation for the meetings: “the mission of the Church, the relationship between local Churches and the universal Church, the idea of the Church as the Church of the poor, the laity in the Church, the spirit of service in ecclesiastical institutions and serving the common good.”Fr. Lombardi said Francis emphasised the importance of the chirograph he issued two days ago, “establishing the eight-member Council of Cardinals. He gave the Council lasting importance beyond this meeting, giving is legal substance.” The spokesman was keen to point out that the eight members “are not continental “delegates” but members of the College of Cardinals selected by the Pope, who have a great deal of experience and serve important dioceses all around the world.” The eight cardinals “enjoy the trust and appreciation of Pope Francis and they are people whom he feels in tune with.” This partly accounts for the spirit of communion and calm during the meeting. Each participant presented a summary of all the suggestions they had received and brought other material and notes with them. The group then collectively decided on the topics for discussion.The meetings resumed this morning, with the issue of Curia reform being addressed. “The Pope’s relationship with the dicasteries, the coordination of dicasteries, the function of the Secretariat of State: there are a vast number of ideas being presented but this work is going to take some time. There aren’t going to be any quick conclusions.”

10/ 2/2013 VATICAN INSIDER

Vatican considers establishment of national ecclesiastical tribunals to deal with clerical sex-abuse cases

Ecclesiastical courts

The Pope has proposed a strategy for speeding up trials, involving cases being heard in first and second instance courts, by different judges

ANDREA TORNIELLI vatican city The fight against paedophilia and abuse against minors by members of the clergy remains a priority under Francis’ pontificate as it was under Benedict XVI’s. One of the ideas currently being examined for the improvement of the existing system, is to establish national and regional ecclesiastical courts, specialising in these types of cases. This would speed the trial process up.The idea was discussed during the second part of the Concistory which took place on Monday morning. All cardinals present in Rome attended. After John Paul Ii and John XXIII’s canonization dates were officially announced, Francis consulted the cardinals on the anti-paedophilia regulations currently in place.Last 6 April, after receiving the Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Gerhard Müller, Francis “strongly urged the Congregation to continue the work Benedict XVI had begun against sex abuse and act with determination to combat it.” Francis asked the Congregation above all to “promote measures for the protection of minors, help past victims of sex abuse, take all necessary measures to bring guilty parties to justice and ensure Bishops’ Conferences introduced and implemented all necessary regulations relating to sex abuse. This is so important for the Church’s testimony and credibility.” This is an unmistakable sign that the clampdown on paedophilia in the Church continues. 
The current regulations which were introduced by Ratzinger and have been in force for the past ten years got tougher in 2010. These regulations state that child sex abuse cases cannot be heard in local courts but can only be dealt with by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in Rome. In the wake of the wave of sex abuse cases in the U.S., Ireland and Germany, a form of “emergency legislation” came into force, making it possible for priests found guilty of sex abuse crimes to be removed from the clergy via administrative judicial means. Although cases had to be evaluated by the Congregation’s special team, which until a year ago was headed by Maltese monsignor Charles Scicluna, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith passed the cases on local first instance and second instance ecclesiastical courts. In such cases, these local courts acted on a Holy See mandate. But these courts were set up on a case-by-case basis, they were not fixed, specialist structures.One of the ideas that is currently being examined, is the potential establishment of regional or national courts which could be linked to individual bishops’ conferences. This would speed up legal procedures, making them more efficient and would guarantee the protection of victims as well as the legitimate defence of the rights of the individual being accused. The courts would have the authority to promptly hold first and second instance hearings into abuse cases. Thanks to Benedict XVI’s hard work, mentalities are slowly changing. Bishops’ Conferences are adopting specific regulations, deriving from the Holy See’s more general regulations. These more specific regulations are tailored to the civil and criminal laws of individual countries. The logical result will be decentralisation and clearer rules.Another aspect the Holy See’s jurists are looking into is the procedure for appealing against a cleric’s dismissal through the administrative track in very serious cases. Until today the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith itself acted as a court of second instance but some are suggesting that the Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura should handle sex abuse cases.

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

28 earthquakes - DownloadUpdated: 2013-10-03 07:40:22 UTC-04:00Showing event times using Local System Time (UTC-04:00)28 earthquakes in map area

1. 2.6 26km WSW of Anchor Point, Alaska 2013-10-03 05:51:18 UTC-04:00 34.4 km
2. 4.6 2km NNW of Malabanan, Philippines 2013-10-03 04:52:52 UTC-04:00 173.6 km
3. 3.1 77km NE of Kodiak, Alaska 2013-10-03 03:55:10 UTC-04:00 1.0 km
4. 4.1 85km W of Gustavus, Alaska 2013-10-03 03:47:48 UTC-04:00 5.0 km
5. 5.3 16km NW of Singtam, India 2013-10-03 02:12:39 UTC-04:00 9.7 km
6. 4.2 80km SW of Puerto Madero, Mexico 2013-10-03 01:56:25 UTC-04:00 35.6 km
7. 4.6 179km SSW of Ust'-Kamchatsk Staryy, Russia 2013-10-03 01:45:26 UTC-04:00 46.0 km
8. 4.4 Izu Islands, Japan region 2013-10-03 00:23:00 UTC-04:00 443.8 km
9. 4.8 Owen Fracture Zone region 2013-10-02 23:31:22 UTC-04:00 9.9 km
10. 2.7 2km WNW of Spencer, Oklahoma 2013-10-02 23:01:52 UTC-04:00 8.1 km
11. 4.5 259km NNE of Ndoi Island, Fiji 2013-10-02 20:46:09 UTC-04:00 446.6 km
12. 4.6 174km SSE of Muara Siberut, Indonesia 2013-10-02 19:33:38 UTC-04:00 34.8 km
13. 3.9 30km ESE of Vinaros, Spain 2013-10-02 19:06:50 UTC-04:00 0.0 km
14. 4.6 208km NW of Saumlaki, Indonesia 2013-10-02 18:21:40 UTC-04:00 142.6 km
15. 4.3 86km NNE of San Luis, Mexico 2013-10-02 18:12:07 UTC-04:00 10.0 km
16. 4.8 141km SE of Kirakira, Solomon Islands 2013-10-02 17:08:12 UTC-04:00 37.7 km
17. 4.8 142km NE of Bristol Island, South Sandwich Islands 2013-10-02 17:00:00 UTC-04:00 64.2 km
18. 2.9 102km N of Culebra, Puerto Rico 2013-10-02 16:59:44 UTC-04:00 13.0 km
19. 2.8 7km N of Spencer, Oklahoma 2013-10-02 16:39:55 UTC-04:00 5.0 km
20. 3.1 6km W of Cobb, California 2013-10-02 16:38:31 UTC-04:00 2.0 km
21. 2.6 75km WSW of Cantwell, Alaska 2013-10-02 16:30:48 UTC-04:00 100.0 km
22. 3.6 2km WSW of Mitterndorf an der Fischa, Austria 2013-10-02 13:17:36 UTC-04:00 9.2 km
23. 4.3 41km WSW of Coahuayana, Mexico 2013-10-02 12:43:11 UTC-04:00 47.1 km
24. 4.7 240km SSE of Saparua, Indonesia 2013-10-02 12:42:31 UTC-04:00 199.3 km
25. 4.4 88km N of Culebra, Puerto Rico 2013-10-02 11:26:35 UTC-04:00 13.0 km
26. 4.9 34km ENE of Port-Olry, Vanuatu 2013-10-02 11:06:48 UTC-04:00 101.0 km
27. 2.5 8km WNW of Freeland, Washington 2013-10-02 10:26:45 UTC-04:00 56.3 km
28. 4.5 89km W of Chipata, Zambia 2013-10-02 10:23:19 UTC-04:00 15.7 km