KING JESUS IS COMING FOR US ANY TIME NOW. THE RAPTURE. BE PREPARED TO GO.
DANIEL 7:23-25
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast (EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TRADING BLOCKS-10 WORLD REGIONS/TRADE BLOCS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings(10 NATIONS-10 WORLD DIVISION WORLD GOVERNMENT) that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.(TAKE OVER 3 WORLD REGIONS)
LUKE 2:1-3
1 And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed.
2 (And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.)
3 And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city.
William F. Jasper
thenewamerican.com
December 15, 2013
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHYlZb65gVY
We all remember Representative Nancy Pelosi’s infamous statement that we have to pass the ObamaCare legislation so that we can find out what’s in it. That was in 2010 and Mrs. Pelosi was then speaker of the House of Representatives.Well, Congress followed her advice and passed ObamaCare, formally known as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Three years later, in October of 2013, tens of millions of Americans began finding out what was really in the bill, as they began receiving health insurance cancellations and/or massive premium hikes. They also began to learn that under ObamaCare the IRS has been given new powers to go after them, their businesses, and their bank accounts. And that is only the beginning. As with all legislation, the devil is in the details, and lots of devils keep popping out of the constantly evolving details, as dozens of federal agencies continue churning out thousands of pages of regulations to implement the misbegotten, misnamed Affordable Care Act.There are many important lessons from ObamaCare that we should apply to another huge project that could have a similarly devastating impact on our nation. In November 2009, President Obama announced his intention to have the United States participate in a so-called trade agreement known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership. I say so-called trade agreement because 80 percent of the proposed agreement deals with a great many issues besides trade.The Trans-Pacific Partnership, or TPP, as it is called, is an all-out assault on our national sovereignty. It would unconstitutionally transfer legislative powers from the U.S. Congress, our state legislatures, and our city and county governments to multi-national corporations and unaccountable international bureaucrats at the World Trade Organization, or WTO. Incredibly, it also would transfer judicial powers from our federal and state courts — which are bad enough — to globalist TPP judges at regional tribunals and the WTO. It would also confer huge advantages on foreign businesses and large multinationals, while at the same time putting companies that operate here in America — especially small and medium-sized enterprises — at a competitive disadvantage. American businesses would remain shackled by the regulations of EPA, FDA, OSHA, etc. while their foreign competitors could operate here unimpeded by those same strictures.Like the infamous NAFTA trade agreement passed in the ’90s, the TPP would usher in another wave of outsourcing, as the remaining manufacturing and technology bases would be given incentives to move to Pacific Rim countries, resulting in millions more American job losses.With TPP negotiations on track to be completed by the end of 2013, President Obama will likely ask Congress to approve this trade agreement in early 2014. Contact your senators and representative and urge them to oppose the Trans-Pacific Partnership, and see the many additional articles listed below the video that we’ve published detailing the dangers of the TPP.
DANIEL 7:23-25
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast (EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TRADING BLOCKS-10 WORLD REGIONS/TRADE BLOCS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings(10 NATIONS-10 WORLD DIVISION WORLD GOVERNMENT) that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.(TAKE OVER 3 WORLD REGIONS)
LUKE 2:1-3
1 And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed.
2 (And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.)
3 And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city.
Trans-Pacific Partnership: Bigger and More Dangerous Than ObamaCare (Video)
thenewamerican.com
December 15, 2013
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHYlZb65gVY
We all remember Representative Nancy Pelosi’s infamous statement that we have to pass the ObamaCare legislation so that we can find out what’s in it. That was in 2010 and Mrs. Pelosi was then speaker of the House of Representatives.Well, Congress followed her advice and passed ObamaCare, formally known as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Three years later, in October of 2013, tens of millions of Americans began finding out what was really in the bill, as they began receiving health insurance cancellations and/or massive premium hikes. They also began to learn that under ObamaCare the IRS has been given new powers to go after them, their businesses, and their bank accounts. And that is only the beginning. As with all legislation, the devil is in the details, and lots of devils keep popping out of the constantly evolving details, as dozens of federal agencies continue churning out thousands of pages of regulations to implement the misbegotten, misnamed Affordable Care Act.There are many important lessons from ObamaCare that we should apply to another huge project that could have a similarly devastating impact on our nation. In November 2009, President Obama announced his intention to have the United States participate in a so-called trade agreement known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership. I say so-called trade agreement because 80 percent of the proposed agreement deals with a great many issues besides trade.The Trans-Pacific Partnership, or TPP, as it is called, is an all-out assault on our national sovereignty. It would unconstitutionally transfer legislative powers from the U.S. Congress, our state legislatures, and our city and county governments to multi-national corporations and unaccountable international bureaucrats at the World Trade Organization, or WTO. Incredibly, it also would transfer judicial powers from our federal and state courts — which are bad enough — to globalist TPP judges at regional tribunals and the WTO. It would also confer huge advantages on foreign businesses and large multinationals, while at the same time putting companies that operate here in America — especially small and medium-sized enterprises — at a competitive disadvantage. American businesses would remain shackled by the regulations of EPA, FDA, OSHA, etc. while their foreign competitors could operate here unimpeded by those same strictures.Like the infamous NAFTA trade agreement passed in the ’90s, the TPP would usher in another wave of outsourcing, as the remaining manufacturing and technology bases would be given incentives to move to Pacific Rim countries, resulting in millions more American job losses.With TPP negotiations on track to be completed by the end of 2013, President Obama will likely ask Congress to approve this trade agreement in early 2014. Contact your senators and representative and urge them to oppose the Trans-Pacific Partnership, and see the many additional articles listed below the video that we’ve published detailing the dangers of the TPP.
Mandatory lobby register requires EU treaty change
14.12.13 @ 08:08-EUOBSERVER
BRUSSELS - A treaty change or a unanimous decision from member states is needed to make the EU-joint transparency register mandatory.“To get a legal base, we need a treaty change,” German centre-right
MEP Rainer Wieland, told this website on Friday (13 December).“And we expect the commission to come up with a proposal for a legal
base,” added Wieland, who heads the parliament’s working group on the
joint transparency register.A review of the register on Thursday recommends the European
Commission come forward with a proposal to adapt the EU Treaty to make
it compulsory.The idea still has to get screened and approved by the parliament’s
constitutional affairs committee before a formal proposal is put forward
to the commission.Should the treaty change idea fall apart then the commission needs to
put together another proposal by 2016, which would require unanimity
among EU member states.Wieland said this is the least favourable of the two options because it would exclude the parliament from having any influence.“It is also possible the commission does not want to come with a
proposal because it is out of any reach to get a decision of the
council,” he said.If no decision is made, then the transparency register will come up for review again in 2017.Parliament sources say European commissioner for inter-institutional
affairs Maros Sefcovic wants to keep the register voluntary in order to
attract more entries.The commission’s official line is that making the register mandatory would be too difficult.“It would raise a great number of complex legal issues, in particular
with regard to the scope of the register, and compliance with other
articles of the treaties,” it said in a statement.The two sides came together to review the register and instead put forward some 30 recommendations to improve it.One idea is to expand the scope to include all lobbying activities no matter where they take place geographically.Another is to make a distinction between for profit and non-profit agencies.Both the MEPs and the commission agree incentives need to be put in place to encourage more people to register.The working group wants to shut out the exceptions to a rule that requires registration to access parliament buildings.“These incentives include facilitating access to EP premises, the
possibility to be consulted by the commission as experts or by heard at
EP committee hearings,” notes the working group.
But Olivier Hoedeman at the Brussels-base Corporate Europe Observatory described the recommendations as “incredibly vague.”He noted the commission meets with major corporations that are not in the registry like US investment bank Goldman Sachs.The commission, for its part, estimates up to 75 percent of all relevant business-related entities and around 60 percent of NGOs operating in Brussels have registered.Nearly 6,000 organisations are currently in the register, although pro-transparency groups say numerous entries are either out of date and contain errors.Registrants are required to update the data once a year and on issues they lobbied on in the previous year.
But Olivier Hoedeman at the Brussels-base Corporate Europe Observatory described the recommendations as “incredibly vague.”He noted the commission meets with major corporations that are not in the registry like US investment bank Goldman Sachs.The commission, for its part, estimates up to 75 percent of all relevant business-related entities and around 60 percent of NGOs operating in Brussels have registered.Nearly 6,000 organisations are currently in the register, although pro-transparency groups say numerous entries are either out of date and contain errors.Registrants are required to update the data once a year and on issues they lobbied on in the previous year.
EU data retention law said to breach privacy rights
13.12.13 @ 09:20-EUOBSERVER
BRUSSELS - The EU data retention directive breaches the charter of fundamental rights, an EU advocate general has said.“The directive constitutes a serious interference with the
fundamental right of citizens to privacy,” said Pedro Cruz Villalon, an
advocate general at the Luxembourg-based European Court of Justice, in
an opinion out on Thursday (12 December).The 2006 directive has generated considerable controversy over the
years because it allows governments and intelligence agencies to track
and store data on the movements, meetings, phone and Internet use of
every EU citizen.Operators are required to retain details of emails and telephone
calls for up to two years in a database specifically designed for police
access.
“The directive treats everyone as a suspect, it monitors everyone, it puts everyone under surveillance,” said TJ McIntyre of Digital Rights Ireland, who took the case to the court almost seven years ago.Villalon’s opinion is not binding but is still seen as a major victory by pro-rights advocates because the court’s judges often come to the same conclusion.A final court verdict is expected sometime in the first half of next year.
“It bodes very well for the final judgement, it is a very measured, a very balanced opinion, and I think it is one the court’s will find very influential,” said McIntyre.Villalon says the European commission has to come up with better reasons to justify the directive.The Spanish advocate says safeguards need to be set up to limit access because the retained data is at risk of being used in unlawful, fraudulent, and malicious ways.He suggests using courts or independent bodies to screen access requests instead of just allowing a loose interpretation of a ‘serious crime’ to justify police probes.“It should have required a case-by-case examination of requests for access in order to limit the data provided to what is strictly necessary,” notes the opinion.Principles should have been set up, it says, so that authorities authorised to access the data are required to erase them once no longer useful.Authorities should also have to notify people their data was accessed, at least retrospectively, if they are innocent or if the notification presents no risk to criminal investigations.The opinion casts some doubt on fines levied against member states, which did not fully transpose the directive into national law on time.Sweden over the summer was fined a lump sum of €3 million because of the delay.Germany is also under the commission’s scrutiny.Last year, the Brussels executive took Berlin to the court after it refused to transpose it. Germany’s Federal Constitutional Court annulled the directive in 2010.The commission wants Germany to pay a daily penalty payment of €315,036.54 for each day after the Court ruling until the country ceases to be in breach of EU law.The German case is still on-going.“You can’t say there is an obligation to implement the directive, while at the same time the advocate general has said the directive should be regarded as invalid. At a minimum, the case should be put on hold,” says McIntyre.A contact at the Court said it would be difficult for a member state to be in breach of a directive that no longer exists, should it be annulled.“There are some very special cases where EU law can be deemed to be non-existant, which basically means it had never been valid, ever, and anything that it has caused to happen should be reversed,” he said.The European Commission, for its part, says they are working on improving the directive but must take into account existing EU data protection laws like the e-privacy directive.“It doesn’t really make sense to review or make a change of the data retention directive if these other elements are not in place,” said European Commission spokesperson for home affairs, Michele Cercone.
The European Union (EU) has become embroiled in a financial scandal of massive proportions in relation to the financial assistance given by it to the Palestinian Authority (PA) since 1994.This appears very clear from the comprehensive European Court of Auditors Report dated 22 October 2013 which was only made public this week.
The Report reveals the following:
1. During the period 1994–2006, more than 2.7 billion euro was allocated to the Palestinian Authority from the EU’s general budget.
2. Between 2007 and 2012 some 2.9 billion euro was committed from the EU general budget. The main focus of EU assistance involved direct financial support (DFS) - which accounted for 47.4 % of the overall assistance in the period 2007–12.
3. DFS was the EU’s response to the political, fiscal and humanitarian crisis that followed the temporary suspension of most aid to the PA following Hamas’ January 2006 election victory. A ‘temporary international mechanism’ (TIM) was established which aimed to ensure the direct delivery of assistance to the Palestinian population while bypassing a Hamas‑led government.
4. TIM - initially set up for 3 months - operated between June 2006 and February 2008 - until replaced by the current mechanism – PEGASE - which is largely based on TIM.
5. PEGASE DFS has had the broad objective of helping the PA continue to function until the overall political objective of a two state solution is achieved.
6. The main objective of PEGASE DFS is to help the PA to meet its obligations towards civil service employees and pensioners (CSP) and maintain the functioning of the administration and the provision of essential public services to the population;
7. Support for civil servants and pensioners comprised 72.5 % of total funding.
8. Since the launch of PEGASE DFS in February 2008, few substantial changes have been made to the CSP component. This is in spite of changes in the operational environment, including the increasing number of beneficiaries, the rise in the number of civil servants not attending work after public sector strikes in Gaza in August–September 2008 and the growing need for civil service reform.
9, The EU has not developed a clear strategy on how to reduce the PA’s dependency on PEGASE DFS support over time.
10. From 2008 to 2012, the average number of civil servants and pensioners that regularly had part of their salary paid by contributions from the CSP component rose from 75 502 to 84 320. This represents approximately half of the PA’s 170 000 civil servants and pensioners.
11. The PA has made little progress on civil service and pension reforms to reduce the fiscal impact of the increasing numbers of staff and pensioners, for example, by reducing the number of PA staff or amending the rules regulating entitlements.
The audit found indications that in Gaza a considerable number of civil servants were receiving salaries - partly funded by PEGASE DFS - because they were eligible for support by virtue of being on the PA payroll but who were not going to work due to the political situation in Gaza. Some civil servants were dismissed after the Hamas takeover because they supported the PA, while others were demoted or locked out following the PA trade union strikes of August– September 2008.
12.Out of 10 Gaza beneficiaries selected by the audit for interviews, three stated that they were not working, while one was absent. The audit also found that the State Audit and Administrative Control Bureau was obliged, in accordance with PA regulations, to pay salaries for its 90 staff members in Gaza, all of whom are unable to work.
These findings are consistent with estimates based on data from interviews provided in a 2010 evaluation of PEGASE contracted by the EU which indicated that 22 % and 24 % respectively of the staff employed by the PA Ministries of Health and Education in Gaza were not working at the time.
13. The EU, while aware of this problem, has not taken adequate steps to address it and was unable to provide clear information on the extent of this practice. Given the amount of money which the EU is providing through PEGASE DFS, it would have been expected that they could obtain such information from the PA.
14. Despite the importance of this issue, there was no transparent reference to PEGASE DFS being used to pay non‑performing workers in any of the EU’s financing documentation for the annual programs.
15.While PEGASE is intended to support public services for the benefit of the Palestinian Arab population, the payment of non‑performing civil servants does not serve this objective
Spending hundreds of millions of dollars supposedly supporting the salaries of public servants that no longer occupy those positions and doing nothing to arrest this expenditure - although knowing it was happening - indicates an appalling standard of financial irresponsibility for which the EU has become famous.
This financial gravy train seems set to continue while:
1. Hamas and the PLO refuse to reconcile their differences
2. The PLO rejects any kind of settlement with Israel that entails Israel obtaining sovereignty in any part of the 'West Bank'.
The European Union is on a treadmill from which it must now extricate itself.
The obvious solution is to make sure EU money gets to the most needy – not phantom employees who have been having a financial feast at European taxpayers expense.
ISRAEL SATAN COMES AGAINST
1 CHRONICLES 21:1
1 And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel.
ISRAELS TROUBLE
JEREMIAH 30:7
7 Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble;(ISRAEL) but he shall be saved out of it.
ISAIAH 31:5
5 As birds flying,(PLANES) so will the LORD of hosts defend Jerusalem;(WITH PLANES) defending also he will deliver it; and passing over he will preserve it.(NUKE OR BOMB ISRAELS ENEMIES)
DANIEL 12:1,4
1 And at that time shall Michael(ISRAELS WAR ANGEL) stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people:(ISRAEL) and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation(May 14,48) even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.
4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro,(WORLD TRAVEL,IMMIGRATION) and knowledge shall be increased.(COMPUTERS,CHIP IMPLANTS ETC)
ISAIAH 14:12-15
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 will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.(SATAN HAS PROUD I PROBLEMS)
15 Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.
Everybody knows that it is either going to be “settlements” or a “Palestinian State”. Both cannot cohexist side by side.
The fate of Jewish life in Judea and Samaria is the most important single defining issue for the future of the Jewish people.After Yasser Arafat convinced the Israelis that "delivering" Arabs to the Jews is something his people couldn’t tolerate, Israel has convinced herself that she can deliver many Jews to the Arabs.This is the real meaning of John Kerry’s “security promises”.Declaring
partial sovereignty over Judea and Samaria, the alternative suggested
by those Israelis who made a religion out of security, will not ease the
tremendous pressure on the State of Israel and the Jews. Partial sovereignty will lead to the point where the security situation will be even worse, and Israel might fatally decide to abandon every inch of the Biblical heartland.However - exactly as there is no solution to the Old City of Jerusalem, where separation is impossible unless Israel relinquishes the Jewish Quarter and the Western Wall, the State of Israel
in Judea and Samaria has now only two alternatives: annexing all the
land (at least Area C where all the Israelis live) in the name of Jewish
rights, or facing a new catastrophe, a new cataclysm, a new diaspora, a
new cycle of exile, or at worst, a new Holocaust, whether violent or
not.Everybody knows that it is either going to be “settlements” or a “Palestinian State”. Both cannot cohexist side by side.And
a “Palestinian State” means the deportation of at least 100,000 Jews -
or up to many times that number - and the annihilation of an entire
Jewish civilization in Judea and Samaria.And it might mean something even worse: it might mean the end of Jewish history. Why is that? Two
exiles, in 586 B.C. and in 70 A.D., created the conditions for a
dispersion and isolation. Only a miracle made it possible for the Jewish
people to survive under forced conversions and gas chambers. What if
the third Jewish commonwealth, which is based in Tel Aviv, Naharya and
Hevron, meets the fate of the first two? No people could survive it,
again. Not even the Jews.Yes, Jewish leftist coteries will
continue to exist in New York and hareidi ghettos might be seen in
Antwerp. But destroying Jewish life in Judea and Samaria and exposing
the Jewish life on the coast to an inexorable calamity, means delivering
the Jewish people in its entirety to the fate of the Ten Tribes.They were Jews who melted away into history. Disappeared. Forever.Muslims
prefer the sword rather than the UN resolutions to
determine boundaries. The 1947 boundaries have already been washed away
by the blood of 6,500 Israelis who gave birth to the State of Israel with their lives.Do we want the post-1967 boundaries to be washed away by blood of millions of Jews? Because
we all know that the only real goal of all Palestinian Arabs, both
“moderate” and "radical", is the Blue Line. That of the Mediterranean.
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.
“The directive treats everyone as a suspect, it monitors everyone, it puts everyone under surveillance,” said TJ McIntyre of Digital Rights Ireland, who took the case to the court almost seven years ago.Villalon’s opinion is not binding but is still seen as a major victory by pro-rights advocates because the court’s judges often come to the same conclusion.A final court verdict is expected sometime in the first half of next year.
“It bodes very well for the final judgement, it is a very measured, a very balanced opinion, and I think it is one the court’s will find very influential,” said McIntyre.Villalon says the European commission has to come up with better reasons to justify the directive.The Spanish advocate says safeguards need to be set up to limit access because the retained data is at risk of being used in unlawful, fraudulent, and malicious ways.He suggests using courts or independent bodies to screen access requests instead of just allowing a loose interpretation of a ‘serious crime’ to justify police probes.“It should have required a case-by-case examination of requests for access in order to limit the data provided to what is strictly necessary,” notes the opinion.Principles should have been set up, it says, so that authorities authorised to access the data are required to erase them once no longer useful.Authorities should also have to notify people their data was accessed, at least retrospectively, if they are innocent or if the notification presents no risk to criminal investigations.The opinion casts some doubt on fines levied against member states, which did not fully transpose the directive into national law on time.Sweden over the summer was fined a lump sum of €3 million because of the delay.Germany is also under the commission’s scrutiny.Last year, the Brussels executive took Berlin to the court after it refused to transpose it. Germany’s Federal Constitutional Court annulled the directive in 2010.The commission wants Germany to pay a daily penalty payment of €315,036.54 for each day after the Court ruling until the country ceases to be in breach of EU law.The German case is still on-going.“You can’t say there is an obligation to implement the directive, while at the same time the advocate general has said the directive should be regarded as invalid. At a minimum, the case should be put on hold,” says McIntyre.A contact at the Court said it would be difficult for a member state to be in breach of a directive that no longer exists, should it be annulled.“There are some very special cases where EU law can be deemed to be non-existant, which basically means it had never been valid, ever, and anything that it has caused to happen should be reversed,” he said.The European Commission, for its part, says they are working on improving the directive but must take into account existing EU data protection laws like the e-privacy directive.“It doesn’t really make sense to review or make a change of the data retention directive if these other elements are not in place,” said European Commission spokesperson for home affairs, Michele Cercone.
Op-Ed: The EU Auditors Report: A PA-EU Financial Scandal
Published: Sunday, December 15, 2013 6:48 PM-Israelnationalnews
European taxpayers are supporting a massive fraud.
David Singer
The European Union (EU) has become embroiled in a financial scandal of massive proportions in relation to the financial assistance given by it to the Palestinian Authority (PA) since 1994.This appears very clear from the comprehensive European Court of Auditors Report dated 22 October 2013 which was only made public this week.
The Report reveals the following:
1. During the period 1994–2006, more than 2.7 billion euro was allocated to the Palestinian Authority from the EU’s general budget.
2. Between 2007 and 2012 some 2.9 billion euro was committed from the EU general budget. The main focus of EU assistance involved direct financial support (DFS) - which accounted for 47.4 % of the overall assistance in the period 2007–12.
3. DFS was the EU’s response to the political, fiscal and humanitarian crisis that followed the temporary suspension of most aid to the PA following Hamas’ January 2006 election victory. A ‘temporary international mechanism’ (TIM) was established which aimed to ensure the direct delivery of assistance to the Palestinian population while bypassing a Hamas‑led government.
4. TIM - initially set up for 3 months - operated between June 2006 and February 2008 - until replaced by the current mechanism – PEGASE - which is largely based on TIM.
5. PEGASE DFS has had the broad objective of helping the PA continue to function until the overall political objective of a two state solution is achieved.
6. The main objective of PEGASE DFS is to help the PA to meet its obligations towards civil service employees and pensioners (CSP) and maintain the functioning of the administration and the provision of essential public services to the population;
7. Support for civil servants and pensioners comprised 72.5 % of total funding.
8. Since the launch of PEGASE DFS in February 2008, few substantial changes have been made to the CSP component. This is in spite of changes in the operational environment, including the increasing number of beneficiaries, the rise in the number of civil servants not attending work after public sector strikes in Gaza in August–September 2008 and the growing need for civil service reform.
9, The EU has not developed a clear strategy on how to reduce the PA’s dependency on PEGASE DFS support over time.
10. From 2008 to 2012, the average number of civil servants and pensioners that regularly had part of their salary paid by contributions from the CSP component rose from 75 502 to 84 320. This represents approximately half of the PA’s 170 000 civil servants and pensioners.
11. The PA has made little progress on civil service and pension reforms to reduce the fiscal impact of the increasing numbers of staff and pensioners, for example, by reducing the number of PA staff or amending the rules regulating entitlements.
The audit found indications that in Gaza a considerable number of civil servants were receiving salaries - partly funded by PEGASE DFS - because they were eligible for support by virtue of being on the PA payroll but who were not going to work due to the political situation in Gaza. Some civil servants were dismissed after the Hamas takeover because they supported the PA, while others were demoted or locked out following the PA trade union strikes of August– September 2008.
12.Out of 10 Gaza beneficiaries selected by the audit for interviews, three stated that they were not working, while one was absent. The audit also found that the State Audit and Administrative Control Bureau was obliged, in accordance with PA regulations, to pay salaries for its 90 staff members in Gaza, all of whom are unable to work.
These findings are consistent with estimates based on data from interviews provided in a 2010 evaluation of PEGASE contracted by the EU which indicated that 22 % and 24 % respectively of the staff employed by the PA Ministries of Health and Education in Gaza were not working at the time.
13. The EU, while aware of this problem, has not taken adequate steps to address it and was unable to provide clear information on the extent of this practice. Given the amount of money which the EU is providing through PEGASE DFS, it would have been expected that they could obtain such information from the PA.
14. Despite the importance of this issue, there was no transparent reference to PEGASE DFS being used to pay non‑performing workers in any of the EU’s financing documentation for the annual programs.
15.While PEGASE is intended to support public services for the benefit of the Palestinian Arab population, the payment of non‑performing civil servants does not serve this objective
Spending hundreds of millions of dollars supposedly supporting the salaries of public servants that no longer occupy those positions and doing nothing to arrest this expenditure - although knowing it was happening - indicates an appalling standard of financial irresponsibility for which the EU has become famous.
This financial gravy train seems set to continue while:
1. Hamas and the PLO refuse to reconcile their differences
2. The PLO rejects any kind of settlement with Israel that entails Israel obtaining sovereignty in any part of the 'West Bank'.
The European Union is on a treadmill from which it must now extricate itself.
The obvious solution is to make sure EU money gets to the most needy – not phantom employees who have been having a financial feast at European taxpayers expense.
ISRAEL SATAN COMES AGAINST
1 CHRONICLES 21:1
1 And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel.
ISRAELS TROUBLE
JEREMIAH 30:7
7 Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble;(ISRAEL) but he shall be saved out of it.
ISAIAH 31:5
5 As birds flying,(PLANES) so will the LORD of hosts defend Jerusalem;(WITH PLANES) defending also he will deliver it; and passing over he will preserve it.(NUKE OR BOMB ISRAELS ENEMIES)
DANIEL 12:1,4
1 And at that time shall Michael(ISRAELS WAR ANGEL) stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people:(ISRAEL) and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation(May 14,48) even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.
4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro,(WORLD TRAVEL,IMMIGRATION) and knowledge shall be increased.(COMPUTERS,CHIP IMPLANTS ETC)
ISAIAH 14:12-15
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 will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.(SATAN HAS PROUD I PROBLEMS)
15 Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.
Op-Ed: Annex the Land Before the "End of Jewish History"
Published: Sunday, December 15, 2013 7:14 PM-Israelnationalnews
The "End of Jewish History" is not as farfetched as
Fukiyama's predictions for the world. Nor is a repetition of the fate of
the Ten Tribes.
Giulio Meotti
The writer, an Italian journalist with Il Foglio, writes a twice-weekly column for Arutz Sheva. He is the author of the book "A New Shoah", that researched the personal stories of Israel's terror victims, published by Encounter. His writing has appeared in publications, such as the Wall Street Journal, Frontpage and Commentary. He has just prblished a book about the Vatican and Israel titled "J'Accuse: the Vatican Against Israel" published by Mantua Books.Everybody knows that it is either going to be “settlements” or a “Palestinian State”. Both cannot cohexist side by side.
The fate of Jewish life in Judea and Samaria is the most important single defining issue for the future of the Jewish people.After Yasser Arafat convinced the Israelis that "delivering" Arabs to the Jews is something his people couldn’t tolerate, Israel has convinced herself that she can deliver many Jews to the Arabs.This is the real meaning of John Kerry’s “security promises”.Declaring
partial sovereignty over Judea and Samaria, the alternative suggested
by those Israelis who made a religion out of security, will not ease the
tremendous pressure on the State of Israel and the Jews. Partial sovereignty will lead to the point where the security situation will be even worse, and Israel might fatally decide to abandon every inch of the Biblical heartland.However - exactly as there is no solution to the Old City of Jerusalem, where separation is impossible unless Israel relinquishes the Jewish Quarter and the Western Wall, the State of Israel
in Judea and Samaria has now only two alternatives: annexing all the
land (at least Area C where all the Israelis live) in the name of Jewish
rights, or facing a new catastrophe, a new cataclysm, a new diaspora, a
new cycle of exile, or at worst, a new Holocaust, whether violent or
not.Everybody knows that it is either going to be “settlements” or a “Palestinian State”. Both cannot cohexist side by side.And
a “Palestinian State” means the deportation of at least 100,000 Jews -
or up to many times that number - and the annihilation of an entire
Jewish civilization in Judea and Samaria.And it might mean something even worse: it might mean the end of Jewish history. Why is that? Two
exiles, in 586 B.C. and in 70 A.D., created the conditions for a
dispersion and isolation. Only a miracle made it possible for the Jewish
people to survive under forced conversions and gas chambers. What if
the third Jewish commonwealth, which is based in Tel Aviv, Naharya and
Hevron, meets the fate of the first two? No people could survive it,
again. Not even the Jews.Yes, Jewish leftist coteries will
continue to exist in New York and hareidi ghettos might be seen in
Antwerp. But destroying Jewish life in Judea and Samaria and exposing
the Jewish life on the coast to an inexorable calamity, means delivering
the Jewish people in its entirety to the fate of the Ten Tribes.They were Jews who melted away into history. Disappeared. Forever.Muslims
prefer the sword rather than the UN resolutions to
determine boundaries. The 1947 boundaries have already been washed away
by the blood of 6,500 Israelis who gave birth to the State of Israel with their lives.Do we want the post-1967 boundaries to be washed away by blood of millions of Jews? Because
we all know that the only real goal of all Palestinian Arabs, both
“moderate” and "radical", is the Blue Line. That of the Mediterranean. 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
38 earthquakes - DownloadUpdated: 2013-12-15 14:30:31 UTC-05:00Showing event times using Local System Time (UTC-05:00)38 earthquakes in map area- 2.8 49km WNW of Talkeetna, Alaska 2013-12-15 14:03:20 UTC-05:00 96.9 km
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- 2.7 10km S of Morovis, Puerto Rico 2013-12-15 12:50:44 UTC-05:00 12.0 km
- 4.8 48km ENE of Kushiro, Japan 2013-12-15 12:17:42 UTC-05:00 83.1 km
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- 5.2 8km E of Huicungo, Peru 2013-12-15 07:55:16 UTC-05:00 63.1 km
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- 4.7 28km SSW of Ovalle, Chile 2013-12-15 03:01:02 UTC-05:00 47.0 km
- 4.4 3km N of Anatahan, Northern Mariana Islands 2013-12-15 01:45:18 UTC-05:00 1.0 km
- 4.4 122km SE of Ndoi Island, Fiji 2013-12-15 01:30:18 UTC-05:00 395.6 km
- 2.5 64km SSW of Redoubt Volcano, Alaska 2013-12-15 01:19:26 UTC-05:00 129.8 km
- 4.5 102km SE of Pondaguitan, Philippines 2013-12-15 00:42:34 UTC-05:00 103.8 km
- 2.8 2km SSW of Springtown, Texas 2013-12-14 23:54:16 UTC-05:00 4.8 km
- 4.3 30km N of Piru, Indonesia 2013-12-14 22:47:17 UTC-05:00 46.7 km
- 5.0 156km NE of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy, Russia 2013-12-14 22:07:09 UTC-7 km
- 2.5 6km WSW of Avenal, California 2013-12-14 21:33:04 UTC-05:00 11.4 km
- 4.6 251km S of Ndoi Island, Fiji 2013-12-14 20:14:22 UTC-05:00 550.1 km
- 2.5 81km N of Road Town, British Virgin Islands 2013-12-14 19:08:17 UTC-05:00 54.0 km
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- 2.9 3km W of San Juan Bautista, California 2013-12-14 16:41:08 UTC-05:00 5.3 km
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- 2.5 123km SSE of Old Iliamna, Alaska 2013-12-14 15:30:26 UTC-05:00 4.3 km
- 2.5 11km SSE of Cherokee, Oklahoma 2013-12-14 14:45:15 UTC-05:00 0
